Thesaurus.com
Thesaurus / ordinary
FEEDBACK

ordinary

See definition of ordinary on Dictionary.com

How to use ordinary in a sentence

The company also offers a Web dashboard of data for ordinary investors.
HOW THE RICH GOT RICHER: REDDIT TRADING FRENZY BENEFITED WALL STREET ELITEDOUGLAS MACMILLAN, YEGANEH TORBATIFEBRUARY 8, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Internet shutdowns “hurt ordinary people by depriving us of our fundamental rights to access information, to connect with family members, and they also put our physical safety at risk,” Micek says.
MYANMAR: HOW REPRESSIVE REGIMES QUASH DISSENT WITH INTERNET SHUTDOWNSROBERT HACKETTFEBRUARY 2, 2021FORTUNE
The two of us primarily text, so a call was out of the ordinary.
I JUMPED THE QUEUE TO GET AN EXPIRING VACCINE. DID I DO THE RIGHT THING?NIALL FIRTHFEBRUARY 1, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
These two appear to be ordinary, run-of-the-mill tectonic quakes.
RUMBLES ON MARS RAISE HOPES OF UNDERGROUND MAGMA FLOWSROBIN GEORGE ANDREWSFEBRUARY 1, 2021QUANTA MAGAZINE
Instead, wealth is transferred from ordinary investors to bubble sellers.
THE EPIC GAMESTOP SHORT SQUEEZE CONTINUES TO ROIL GLOBAL MARKETS—EVEN BITCOIN IS OFFBERNHARD WARNERJANUARY 28, 2021FORTUNE
On the forum, participants who claimed to be ordinary investors celebrated their collective efforts to take down big hedge funds.
GAMESTOP, AMC SHARES SURGE AFTER REDDIT USERS LEAD CHAOTIC REVOLT AGAINST BIG WALL STREET FUNDSDAVID J. LYNCH, HAMZA SHABAN, TORY NEWMYER, HANNAH DENHAMJANUARY 27, 2021WASHINGTON POST
For too long Africa’s mineral wealth has failed to uplift the majority of ordinary citizens out of poverty.
HOW FOREIGN OPERATORS EXPLOIT WEAK PROTECTIONS IN AFRICA’S EXTRACTIVE SECTORSTAWANDA KAROMBOJANUARY 26, 2021QUARTZ
The agency decided spaceflight was too risky for ordinary citizens.
MEET THE PEOPLE PAYING $55 MILLION EACH TO FLY TO THE SPACE STATIONCHRISTIAN DAVENPORTJANUARY 26, 2021WASHINGTON POST
With its anti-democratic intervals, it’s not made for ordinary people to sing.
INAUGURATION MUSICAL PERFORMANCES ARE TRICKY. BUT LADY GAGA, JENNIFER LOPEZ AND GARTH BROOKS DID EXACTLY WHAT WE NEEDED THEM TO DOSTEPHANIE ZACHAREKJANUARY 20, 2021TIME
Actions taken in a moment of national crisis can also be taken in moments of ordinary ideological conflict.
THE RIGHT’S MESSAGE TO SILICON VALLEY: 'FREE SPEECH FOR ME, BUT NOT FOR THEE'DAVID FRENCHJANUARY 16, 2021TIME
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
Choose the synonym for future
capacitor

WORDS RELATED TO ORDINARY

  • camouflaged
  • concealed
  • dim
  • faint
  • having
  • hidden
  • indistinct
  • insignificant
  • low-key
  • low-profile
  • modest
  • muted
  • obscure
  • ordinary
  • plain
  • quiet
  • retiring
  • secretive
  • shy
  • soft-pedalled
  • subtle
  • tenuous
  • unassuming
  • unemphatic
  • unnoticeable
  • unobtrusive
  • unostentatious
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.