Ordinary

Definition: Ordinary

Ordinary

Adjective

1. Not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine".

2. Lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street".

Noun

1. A judge of a probate court.

2. The expected or commonplace condition or situation: "not out of the ordinary".

3. A clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death.

4. An early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel.

5. (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ordinary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Ordinary

Conformity

Rule, nature, principle; law; order of things; normal state, natural state, ordinary state, model state, normal condition, natural condition, ordinary condition, model condition; standing dish, standing order; Procrustean law; law of the Medes and Persians; hard and fast rule.

Conventional; (customary); of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; in the natural order of things; ordinary, common, habitual, usual, everyday, workaday.

Disuse

Verb: not use; do without, dispense with, let alone, not touch, forbear, abstain, spare, waive, neglect; keep back, reserve. lay up, lay by, lay on the shelf, keep on the shelf,lay up in ordinary; lay up in a napkin; shelve; set aside, put aside, lay aside; disuse, leave off, have done with; supersede; discard; (eject); dismiss, give warning.

Expectance

Common, ordinary, normal, typical, usual; (habitual).

Food

Table, cuisine, bill of fare, menu, table d'hote, ordinary, entree.

Frequency

Common, everyday, usual, ordinary, familiar.

Imperfection

Indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre; average; so-so; coucicouci, milk and water; tolerable, fair, passable; pretty well, pretty good; rather good, moderately good; good; good enough, well enough, adequate; decent; not bad, not amiss; inobjectionable, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing.

Impulse

Common state of things, general state of things, natural state of things, ordinary state of things, ordinary course of things, ordinary run of things; matter of course; beaten path, beaten track, beaten ground.

Adjective: habitual; accustomary; prescriptive, accustomed; Verb: of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; consuetudinary; wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot; well-trodden, well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped; prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited; of course, admitted, understood.

Inaction

Lie by, lie on the shelf, lie in ordinary, lie idle, lie to, lie fallow; keep quiet, slug; have nothing to do, whistle for want of thought.

Simplicity

Adjective: simple, plain; homely, homespun; ordinary, household.

Store

Adjective: stored; Verb:; in store, in reserve, in ordinary; spare, supernumerary.

Ugliness

Adjective: ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned); homely; ordinary, unornamental, inartistic; unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely; unshapely; sightless, seemless; not fit to be seen;

Unconformity

Unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary; strange, monstrous; wonderful; unexpected, unaccountable; outre, out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis; unfashionable; fantastic, grotesque, bizarre; outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural; denaturalized.

Unimportance

Subordinate; (inferior); mediocre; (average); passable, fair, respectable, tolerable, commonplace; uneventful, mere, common; ordinary; (habitual); inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant, inappreciable.

Crosswords: Ordinary

I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Not an ordinary thermos for you. (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.)

I didn't think such violent things could happen to ordinary people (Brief Encounter; writing credit: David Lean, written by Noel Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, and Ronald Neame.)

He's an ordinary person (Dave; writing credit: Gary Ross.)

This is no ordinary lamp (Aladdin; writing credit: Roger Allers; Ron Clements)

But I won't cry for yesterday, there's an ordinary world, (Ordinary World; performing artist: Duran Duran)

I don't wanna be an ordinary man (We Live; performing artist: Bosson)

Take that look of worry, mine's an ordinary life (Take Me Home; performing artist: Phil Collins)

It’s ordinary plain and simple (This Everyday Love; performing artist: Rascal Flatts)

In fact here's just another ordinary day (I Just Called to Say I Love You; performing artist: Stevie Wonder)

Extraordinary: It is the "extra" that make us more than ordinary. (references; author: unknown)

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. (references; author: unknown)

Ordinary Sinner (2003)

Hapax Legomena V: Ordinary Matter (1972)

Quite an Ordinary Knife (1967)

Ordinary People (1942)

The Ordinary Life of Totally Psycho (1999)

Ordinary Day (performing artist: Vanessa Carlton)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Scientific Practice and Ordinary Action : Ethnomethodology and Social Studies of Science (reference)

• Handbook of Exact Solutions for Ordinary Differential Equations, Second Edition (reference)

• Tolkien's Ordinary Virtues : Exploring the Spiritual Themes of the Lord of the Rings (reference)

• Extraordinarily ordinary : a collection of poems (reference)

• Let's Roll: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• News & Notes Out Of The Ordinary (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Ordinary People (reference)

• Tales of Ordinary Madness (reference)

• No Ordinary Love (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• No Ordinary Man (reference)

• Ordinary Time (reference)

• Tales of Ordinary Madness (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

This mole has a characteristic "fried egg" appearance. The eccentric papule is a perfectly ordinary nevus. The diagnostic histologic features are found in the macular portion of the mole, particularly at its shoulder - i.e. Where the papule meets the macule. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Natural history of common acquired nevi. Ordinary moles begin as uniformly tan or brown macules, 1 to 2 mm in diameter (a), expand to a larger macule (b), progress to a pigmented papule that may be minimally (c) or obviously (d) elevated above the surface of the skin, and terminate as a pink or flesh-colored papule (e). These lesions are junctional (a,b), compound (c,d), and dermal (e) nevi, respectively. Note their smooth borders and clear demarcation from the surrounding skin. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Ordinary attire of men on the killing ground And of women and young children in the village Drawing by H. W. Elliott. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

The ordinary way in which cod gill-nets are set floating at Newfoundland From Bulletin U.S. Fish Commission, Vol. I, drawing by Capt. J. W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Assistant Survey Tech Maureen Goff and Ordinary Seaman Matt Monaghan at work in RA-2. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Ordinary Seaman Matt Monaghan dodging the ice in RA-2. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

William Briggs M.D. : Physician on Ordinary to King William 3rd. / R. White delin. 1697. I. Faber fecit. 1738. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

John Forbes, M.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. : Physician in Ordinary to Her Majestey's Household / Painted by John Partridge. Engraved by Wm. Walker. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

USS Nevada (ex-Neshaminy) laid up at the station pier, circa 1871-1873, with USS Dictator "in ordinary" at the right. The original photograph was published as a stereograph pair by E. Ayer, Norwich, Connecticut. Credit: NAVY.

Artwork by Bacon, published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page 54, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907. It depicts Ordinary Seaman Duncan throwing a burning cartridge overboard on USS Fort Hindman, after it was set afire by an exploding shell. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in this incident, which took place during an engagement with an enemy battery near Harrisonburg, Louisiana, on 2 March 1864. James K.L. Duncan was born at Frankfort, PA, in 1845. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

To make this a little clearer, let us but trace some of the ordinary provisions of life, through their several progresses, before they come to our use, and see how much they receive of their value from human industry. (Second Treatise of Government)

It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. (reference)

In political practice, therefore, they join in all coercive measures against the working class; and in ordinary life, despite their high falutin phrases, they stoop to pick up the golden apples dropped from the tree of industry, and to barter truth, love, and honour for traffic in wool, beetroot-sugar, and potato spirits. (reference)

German protected persons, semsars and "associes agricoles", shall be considered as having ceased, as from August 3, 1914, to enjoy the privileges attached to their status and shall be subject to the ordinary law. (reference)

Now I come to the second danger of these two marauders which threatens the cottage, the home, and the ordinary people - namely, tyranny. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Mein Herr was again speaking in his ordinary voice

It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself

In ordinary times, to disperse an anachronism and cause it to vanish, one has only to make it spell the year of our Lord

He appeared as tall as an ordinary spire steeple, and took about ten yards at every stride, as near as I could guess

There are such words as joy and sorrow, but they are only the burden of a psalm, sung with a nasal twang, while we believe in the ordinary and mean

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

It is then given to the patient like an ordinary blood transfusion. (references)

Class 2--Patients who are comfortable at rest but have symptoms with ordinary physical activity. (references)

It is much like having an ordinary x-ray taken, except that the child needs to hold still for a few minutes longer. (references)

Business

The delegation met with ordinary prisoners, but was not given access to political prisoners. (references)

Their services range from an ordinary credit investigation to surveys, land reclamation and anti-wire tapping. (references)

Universal service in Bulgaria is defined as ordinary telephone service and free use of national emergency services. (references)

Children

Lebanon

Juvenile delinquency is rising; many juveniles wait in ordinary prisons for trial and remain there after sentencing. (references)

Russia

Parents wishing to enroll a child in an ordinary secondary school in Moscow must produce a medical certificate affirming that the child is in perfect health. (references)

Australia

In 1992 the High Court ruled that the right to consent to the sterilization of a minor is not within the ordinary scope of parents' or guardians' powers, except in limited circumstances. (references)

Civil Liberties

Uzbekistan

Ordinary citizens remain afraid to express views critical of the President and the Government in public. (references)

Korea

Members of the press group reportedly were allowed to visit a school and to talk to some ordinary persons. (references)

Pakistan

At times landlords and their agents, who have become accustomed to terrorizing with impunity the ordinary citizens living on their lands, retaliate against journalists who report on their actions. (references)

Discrimination

Tonga

Nonetheless it is possible for ordinary citizens to rise to cabinet positions in government and to accumulate great wealth and status in the private sector. (references)

Economic History

Lebanon

Overtime pay must be 50 percent higher than the ordinary wage. (references)

Ecuador

Judicial--Supreme Court, Provincial Courts, and ordinary civil and criminal judges. (references)

Human Rights

Kenya

Court fees for filing and hearing cases are high for ordinary citizens. (references)

Pakistan

The Hudood, Qisas, and Diyat ordinances apply to ordinary criminal courts and Shariat courts. (references)

Pakistan

However, on the basis of lesser evidence, ordinary punishments such as jail terms or fines are imposed. (references)

Political Economy

East Timor

However, by December the number of pretrial detainees for serious and ordinary crimes had been greatly reduced from the previous year. (references)

Bulgaria

Organized crime and corruption are a concern of both the government and the ordinary citizen, and was a significant issue in the election campaign. (references)

Vietnam

The Government allowed elected officials and ordinary citizens in approved forums somewhat greater freedom of expression and assembly to express grievances. (references)

Political Rights

Pakistan

The children were released quickly, but the protesters were held for over 1 week with ordinary criminals before their release. (references)

Guatemala

While ordinary laws could be enacted to accomplish many of the reforms, the constitutional reforms nonetheless held great symbolic value for the peace process. (references)

Burkina Faso

In part because of the important role that women played in reelecting President Compaore in 1998, the Congress for Democracy and Progress voted at its first ordinary Congress held in 1999 to increase the number of women on its National Executive Council from two to six. (references)

Trade

Nigeria

Two types of Domiciliary Accounts exist: Non-oil Exports and Ordinary Domiciliary Accounts. (references)

Nigeria

All shares (i.e. whether ordinary or preferential) issued by a company must carry one vote in respect of each share. (references)

Philippines

The National Food Authority (NFA) remains the sole importer of ordinary rice and continues to be involved in imports of corn. (references)

Travel

Armenia

Rush service exists only for tourist and ordinary visas. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

An ordinary passenger car can access all major cities via paved roads. (references)

Nigeria

Violent crime, practiced by persons in police and military uniforms, as well as by ordinary criminals, is an acute problem. (references)

Women

Saint Lucia

Charges must be brought under the ordinary Civil Code. (references)

Netherlands

Spousal abuse carries a one-third higher penalty than ordinary battery. (references)

Gambia

Police tend to consider these incidents to be domestic issues outside of their ordinary jurisdiction. (references)

Worker Rights

Kyrgyz Republic

The minimum wage law does not apply to the approximately 3,000 workers in ordinary FEZ's. (references)

Iceland

Their work hours must not exceed the ordinary work-hours of adults in the same occupation. (references)

Philippines

An overtime rate of 125 percent of the hourly rate is mandated on ordinary days and 130 percent on rest days and holidays. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "ordinary": above the ordinary ♦ boringly ordinary ♦ in ordinary ♦ in the ordinary way ♦ man of ordinary intellect ♦ nothing out of the ordinary ♦ ordinary alcohol ♦ ordinary annuity ♦ ordinary bicycle ♦ ordinary call ♦ ordinary camera ♦ ordinary care ♦ ordinary chain ♦ ordinary climatological station ♦ ordinary colic ♦ ordinary course ♦ ordinary grade ♦ ordinary lactic acid ♦ ordinary man ♦ ordinary microscope ♦ ordinary of the Mass ♦ ordinary people ♦ ordinary prose ♦ Ordinary Rating ♦ ordinary ray ♦ ordinary road ♦ ordinary seaman ♦ ordinary share ♦ ordinary shares ♦ ordinary steel ♦ ordinary stock ♦ ordinary transport ♦ out of the ordinary ♦ physician in ordinary ♦ something out of the ordinary ♦ surah ordinary ♦ the ordinary run of things ♦ within the range of an ordinary mind. Additional references.

Beginning with "ordinary": ordinary-language, ordinary-looking, ordinary-seeming, ordinary-size, ordinary-sized.

Ending with "ordinary": extra-ordinary, oh-so-ordinary.

Containing "ordinary": i'm-just-an-ordinary-bloke-like-you.

Afrikaans

gewoon (common, usual). (various references)

Albanian

rezervë (backup, cartridge, deposit, distance, emergency, fountain, fund, garment, hoard, leeway, margin, munition, offishness, pool, reservation, reserve, resource, spare, stand by, stock, stockpile, store, supply), normal (natural, normal, par, regular, sane, standard), mishar, mediokër (mediocre), i zakonshëm (accustomed, common, common or garden, commonplace, consuetudinary, current, customary, daily, day to day, everyday, familiar, general, habitual, homely, mundane, natural, normal, ready made, regular, routine, second best, standard, usual, vulgar, wonted, workaday), i thjeshtë (abecedarian, artless, austere, bare, chaste, childlike, common, easy, elementary, enlisted, folksy, foolproof, Hick, home-bred, homely, homespun, humble, inelaborate, informal, ingenuous, inornate, mere, modest, native, natural, neat, not mingled, onefold, plain, prime, primitive, private, pure, quotidian, rude, russet, rustic, simple, unaffected, unassuming, unceremonious, unpretending, unpretentious, unsophisticated, very), i rëndomtë (banal, base, coarse, common, commonplace, copybook, corny, everyday, habitual, hackneyed, homely, mundane, plain, platitudinous, prose, prosy, second rate, substandard, trite, vulgar), i përditshëm (daily, day to day, diurnal, everyday, ferial, homely, mundane, quotidian), gjyqtar (arbiter, judge, magistrate, referee, umpire), gjellë e zakonshme. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهما كان, ‏متوسط (age, average, central, intermediary, intermediate, mean, medial, median, mediocre, medium, middle, middling, moderate, pass, poorly), ‏مألوف (accustomed, beaten, commonplace, conventional, customary, familiar, frequent, habitual, homely, household, orthodox, popular, regular, usual, vulgar), ‏مثل الأخرين, ‏وسط (amid, amidst, among, amongst, center, centre, endo-, fair, john doe, mean, medium, middle, midst, milieu, navel, umbilicus, waist), ‏عادي (average, banal, classless, common, commonplace, conventional, household, lay, mean, medial, mediocre, middling, mundane, natural, normal, plain, plebeian, poor, prosaic, run of the mill, second rate, simple, some, stock, trivial, unexceptional, wont), ‏العادي (average), ‏الإ عتيادي, ‏إعتيادي (habitual, regular, usual), ‏أيا كان (whatever, whatsoever, whoever), ‏أسقف أو مطران. (various references)

Bulgarian 

обичаен (accustomed, common, consuetudinary, customary, familiar, general, habitual, regular, stock, usual, wonted), прост (abc, artless, childlike, common, commonplace, easy, elemental, elementary, funky, grave, homelike, homespun, humble, illiberal, low, native, onefold, open and shut, plain, prime, primitive, rugged, rustic, simple, sleazy, straight, straightforward, uncomplicated, unpretentious, vulgar), лице на редовна служба, епископ (diocesan, pontiff), най-прост знак, нещо обикновено (run), нормален (average, normal, regular, right, sane, sound, straight), посредствен (indifferent, inferior, mean, mediocre, middling, moderate, potty, run of the mill, second rate, tame, tatty, undistinguished), обикновено ниво, съдия (judge, jurist, juror, justice, justiciary, magistrate, referee), общо меню (dinner), вид велосипед, гостилница (cook-shop, eating house, pull up), требник (service book), редовен (full time, goer, lax, licensed, normal, regular, routine, stated), редовен член на съда, средно ниво, обикновен (accustomed, average, common, commonplace, everyday, familiar, frequent, homely, humdrum, low, matter of fact, mere, moderate, mundane, plain, quiet, regular, routine, run of the mill, simple, trite, trivial, unaffected, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual, wonted). (various references)

Chinese 

普通 (average, common, general). (various references)

Czech

obyèejný (average, coarse, common, common or garden, pedestrian, unexceptional, usual), obvyklý (common, consuetudinary, customary, habitual, in use, normal, regular, routine, standard, unexceptional, usual, wonted), všední (commonplace, corny, everyday, flat, shallow, trite, trivial), prùmìrný (average, common, mean, moderate, passable, standard), hostinec (guesthouse, inn, pub, public house), biskup ordinář, bìžný (common, common or garden, current, customary, going, habitual, passable, routine, standing, unexceptional, usual), bìžná vìc. (various references)

Danish

sædvanlig (accustomed, common, customary, used to, usual, wonted), ordinær (common, usual). (various references)

Dutch

niet-gesensibiliseerd (blue-sensitive, colour-blind, non-colour-sensitive), kleurenblind (colour-blind), gewoon (accustomed, common, customary, everyday, normally, used to, usual, wonted), eenvoudig (simple, straightforward). (various references)

Esperanto

ordinara (common, usual). (various references)

Faeroese

vanligur (common, everyday, usual, vulgar), gerandis (common, usual). (various references)

Farsi 

پیش پاافتاده (Banal, Common, Commonplace), متداول (Current, General, Prevalent, Standard, Uptodate, Usual, Vogue), معمولی (Banal, Common, Commonplace, General, Ornery), عادی (Common, Customary, Habitual, Naked, Normal, Ornery, Regular, Rife, Uncritical, Usual). (various references)

Finnish

tavallinen (common, frequent, general, usual). (various references)

French

ordinaire. (various references)

German

gewöhnlich (common, commonly, conveniently, customary, everyday, generally, habitually, low, low-bred, normally, ordinarily, ornery, regular, run-off-the-mill, simple, usual, usually, vulgar, vulgarly), alltäglich (commonplace, daily, day to day, everyday, humdrum, mundane, prosaic, prosaically, trivial, workaday), einfach (easily, easy, elemental, elementary, facile, frugal, homely, homespun, humble, humbly, just, no-frills, one way, plain, plainly, quiet, rude, simple, simpleminded, simply, single, single entry, straightforward, uncluttered, uncomplex, uncomplicated, unit, unpretentious, unpretentiously, unsophisticated), üblich (accustomed, common, conventional, customary, everyday, general, normal, standard, traditional, used to, usual, vulgar, wonted). (various references)

Greek 

κοινόσ (banal, common, commonplace, communal, mutual, stock), κοινός οίνος, συνηθισμένοσ (accustomed, common, conventional, customary, habitual, used to, usual, wont, wonted), συνηθισμένος (common, run of the mill), συνήθησ (beaten, customary, familiar, habitual, stock, unexceptional, usual, wonted, workaday), οίνος ORDINAIRE. (various references)

Haitian Creole

òdinè. (various references)

Hebrew 

מצוי (available, common, current, draining, exhaustion, extraction, frequent, regular, squeezing, usual), יום יומי (daily, everyday, routine, workaday), פשוט (common, elementary, lowly, matter of fact, neat, obvious, petty, plain, simple, simplification, simply, straightforward, unvarnished), רגיל (accustomed, common, habitual, mediocre, par, simple, standard, stock, unexceptional, usual, wont, wonted), נפרץ (common, widespread). (various references)

Hungarian

rendes (decent, easy on the eye, easy to look at, good egg, jobholder, natty, neat, neatness, nice, normal, orderly, ornery, regular, right, there are no flies on him, tidy, trim, usual), átlagos (average, common, mean, medium, ornery, run, run of the mill), vendéglő (dump, inn, place, public house, restaurant), szokásos (accustomed, customary, habitual, regular, ruling, run, usual, wonted), rituálé (ritual), menü, közönséges (base, coarse, common, commonplace, dismal, garden-variety, normal, pig, plebeian, scummy, scurvied, trite, vulgar, wonted), hétköznapi (casual, everyday, ferial, informal, prosy, weekday, workaday). (various references)

Icelandic

venjulegur (accustomed, common, customary, used to, usual, wonted). (various references)

Indonesian

lumrah (commonplace, customary, normal, usual), kebanyakan (largely, majority, most of, too much), kaprah (usual), biasa (accustomed, adjusted, banal, conversant, habitual, lay, regular, trivial, usual), am (common, general, universal). (various references)

Italian

ordinario (coarse, common, ornery, permanent, run of the mill, simple, usual, usually, workaday). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

平凡 (common, commonplace, mediocre), 一般 (average, general, liberal, universal), 並み (average, common, medium). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あたりまえ (common, natural, obvious, reasonable, usual), へいへい (level), へいへいぼんぼん (common, mediocre), へいへいぼんぼんたる (mediocre), へいぼん (common, commonplace, mediocre), へいぜい (barrier, evil practice, usual), じんじょういちよう (common, mediocre), じょうしきてき (commonplace, sensible), けいじょう (appropriation, form, place of execution, policing, shape, speaking respectfully, summing up), よのつね (run-of-the-mill, usual), むい (idleness, inactivity, lacking rank, unintentional), へいそ (in the past), オーディナリー , なお (common, further, furthermore, greater, less, mischief, more, still, still more, straight, yet), いっぱん (a bowl of rice, a half, a meal, a part, a spot, an edition, average, general, liberal, universal), せけんなみ (average), にちじょう (everyday, regular, usual), ぼんじょう (common), ぼんぼんたる (usual), ひととおり (briefly, in general, usual), ひとなみ (being average, stampede, surging crowd, wave of humanity), なみ (average, common, medium, wave), なみなみ, なみたいてい, なんのへんてつもない (commonplace, plain), ありきたり (common). (various references)

Korean 

정규. (various references)

Malay

biasa (accustomed, common, customary, used to, usual, wonted). (various references)

Manx

ayrn cadjin (ordinary share). (various references)

Norwegian

vanlig (accustomed, common, customary, used to, usual, wonted). (various references)

Pig Latin

ordinaryay.(various references)

Polish

zwykły (common, simple, straightforward, usual). (various references)

Portuguese

usual (accustomed, common, customary, general, habitual, inevitable, orthodox, regular, used to, usual, wonted), ordinário (base, base-minded, bum, common, everyday, garden, penny-a-line, run-of-the-mill, stinker, twopenny, usual, vulgar), normal (normal, regular), comum (accepted, accredited, appellative, blanket, cheap, common, commonplace, communal, demotic, everyday, garden, general, habitual, inelaborate, joint, mutual, public, run-of-the-mill, usual, vulgar, vulgarian). (various references)

Romanian

ordinar (boorish, caddish, coarse, common, commonplace, customary, frequent, gross, homespun, improper, regular, rough, slavish, trivial, unrefined, usual, vulgar), obişnuit (accustomed, average, common, commonplace, customarily, customary, frequent, frequently, habitual, habitually, habitue, normal, regular, rife, routine, standard, used to, usual, usually, wonted, workaday), tipic (exemplary, paradigmatically, representative, salient, typical, typically), tavernã (pub, tavern), ritual (ceremonial, ceremony, form, formulary, observance, ordinance, rite, ritual), regulat (equable, even, harmonious, legitimate, normal, orderly, regular, regularly, rhythmic, rhythmical, smooth, staple, steady), rânduialã (arrangement, custom, order, orderliness, round, tidiness, tradition), uzual (accustomed, current, customary, habitual, usual, usually), trebnic, cârciumã (ale-house, bar, crib, drinking house, gin-shop, grogshop, peg house, porter house, pot house, pub, public house, saloon, taproom, tavern), meniu fix (table), masã de toate zilele, cotidian (daily, diurnal, everyday, everyday's), condiţii de serviciu obişnuite, comun (banal, base, common, communal, current, everyday, frequent, general, joint, low, mediocre, mutual, rife, universal, usual, vulgar), normal (legitimate, natural, normal, ordinariness, rated, regular, sane, standard). (various references)

Russian 

обычный (accustomed, bog-standard, common, common or garden, consuetudinary, conventional, customary, everyday, familiar, habitual, natural, normal, regular, run-of-the-mail, run-of-the-mill, usual). (various references)

Scottish

cumanta (common). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ordinaran (plain), običan (common, habitual, plain, prosaic, quotidian, unexceptionable, unexceptional, usual), uobičajen (consuetudinary, customary, habitual, trivial, usual, wonted), svakodnevni (daily, day to day, everyday, mundane, quotidian), redovan (organic, regular, usual). (various references)

Spanish

ordinario (coarse, common, daily, humdrum, indifferent, mediocre, naff, normal, regular, rude, usual, vulgar), común (common, commonalty, commonplace, communal, community, current, dismal, extensive, familiar, generous, indistinctive, joint, mutual, prevailing, rife, team, trite, usual, widespread). (various references)

Swedish

ordinär (accustomed, average, common, customary, used to, usual, wonted), vanlig (accustomed, common, customary, familiar, frequent, habitual, ornery, plain, regular, straight, unexceptional, used to, usual, wonted), ordinarie (permanent, permanent (emplyment)). (various references)

Thai

เรียบๆ (simple), ปกติ (normal). (various references)

Turkish

orta halli yemek, olağan şey (the usual thing), olağan (common, commonplace, everyday, mediocre, mundane, regular, run-off-the-mill, usual), lokanta (café, chophouse, diner, eating house, restaurant), adi (abject, base, camp, campy, cheap jack, chintzy, coarse, coarse grained, common, common as dirt, commonplace, contemptible, dastardly, despicable, everyday, groveling, grovelling, gutter, hackneyed, jerkwater, little, low, low class, mean, measly, no class, one horse, ornery, picayune, picayunish, poky, rubbishy, shoddy, slavish, sleazy, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, vile, vulgar, wormy, yellow dog), alışılagelmiş (common, consuetudinary, customary, habitual, routine), alışılmış şey (rut, the usual thing), alelâde (blah, common, common or garden, common place, commonly, hack, mediocre, nondescript, run-off-the-mill, workaday), alelade (accustomed, common, customary, used to, usual, wonted), adí (common, everyday, usual, vulgar), değişmez kurallar, yetkili makam, normal (normal, normative, regular), sıradan (average, banal, blah, casual, casually, common, common or garden, commonplace, copybook, cut and dried, exoteric, hack, hackneyed, mediocre, nondescript, prosaic, quotidian, regular, routine, run-off-the-mill, small, straight, unexceptional, workaday), tipik (characteristic, characteristical, modal, representative, typical), bayağı (banal, camp, cheap, coarse, coarse grained, common, common as dirt, commonplace, corrupt, dastardly, debased, goodish, inferior, lewd, little, low camp, low class, no class, plebeian, pretty, prosaic, quite, rather, run-off-the-mill, shoddy, tawdry, tolerably, vulgar). (various references)

Turkmen 

rяadowoя (ordinary (r), private (soldier)). (various references)

Ukrainian

суддя по спадкоємним справам, служебник (missal), рядовий (common or garden, nonrated man, private), щось звичайне, ординарний, нескладний (broken, cumbersome, fool-proof, lob, off-key, onefold, open and shut, primitive), звичний (accustomed, chronic, consuetudinary, customary, habitual, normal, old, regular, used to, wonted), звичайний (accustomed, average, common, common or garden, consuetudinary, conventional, customary, everyday, frequent, homely, mediocre, natural, normal, positive, regulation, rife, run of the mill, uneventful, unexceptional, usual), заяложений (commonplace, outworn, platitudinous, ready made, shiny, stale, stock, threadbare), простий (artless, austere, babyish, bald, bare, childlike, mere, onefold, plain, primary, prime, run of the mill, shirt-sleeve, simple, stateless, straightforward, unaffected, unartful, unceremonious, unsophisticated), постійна страва, постійний член суду, посередній (mean, mediocre, middling, ornery, second rate, undistinguished), пересічний (average, decussate). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thường (banal, habitual, mediocre, normal, often, oftentimes, still, trifling, trivial, unsatisfactory, usual, vulgar), thông thường (common, commonly, customary, everyday, normal, normally, regulation, usual, vulgar, wonted), bình thường (casual, common, trivial), điều thông thường (ordinate). (various references)

adsidua, adsidue, adsiduus, cotidiano, cotidianum, media, mediae, mediam, medias, medii, mediis, medio, mediocris, medios, medium, medius, modicus, ordinarius, privata, privati, profanus, solitus, vulgaris, vulgatum. (various references)

usualis, vulgata. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "ordinary": extraordinary, unextraordinary. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ordinary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Forsinard, odinary, onrdinary, orddinary, ordenours, Ordina, ordinare, Ordinarie, ordynary, orinery, Oudenard, Portinari. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: inroad, ordain.

-3 letters: adorn, ardor, aroid, dairy, danio, diary, dinar, drain, irony, nadir, noria, radio, radon, rainy, randy, ranid, rayon, yaird.

-4 letters: airn, airy, arid, ayin, darn, dona, dorr, dory, dray, inro, iron, naoi, nard, nary, nodi, noir, nori, orad, orra, raid, rain, rand, rani, rind, road, roan, roar, rynd, yard, yarn, yird.

+2 letters: ordinarily.

+3 letters: cordwainery, denigratory, rehydration.

+4 letters: diversionary, ferrocyanide, rehydrations, traditionary.

+5 letters: contradictory, digressionary, discretionary, extraordinary, ferrocyanides, hydrocracking, nonhereditary, rekeyboarding, storyboarding, synarthrodial.