ordinary
adjective
[ ˈɔːdɪn(ə)ri ]
• with no special or distinctive features; normal.
• "he sets out to depict ordinary people"
Similar:
usual,
normal,
standard,
typical,
stock,
common,
customary,
habitual,
accustomed,
expected,
wonted,
everyday,
regular,
routine,
day-to-day,
daily,
established,
settled,
set,
fixed,
traditional,
quotidian,
prevailing,
• (especially of a judge or bishop) exercising authority by virtue of office and not by deputation.
ordinary
noun
• what is commonplace or standard.
• "their clichés were vested with enough emotion to elevate them above the ordinary"
• a judge who exercises authority by virtue of office and not by deputation.
• a member of the clergy, such as an archbishop in a province or a bishop in a diocese, with immediate jurisdiction.
• those parts of a Roman Catholic service, especially the Mass, which do not vary from day to day.
• any of the simplest principal charges used in coats of arms (especially chief, pale, bend, fess, bar, chevron, cross, saltire).
• short for ordinary share.
• a meal provided at a fixed time and price at an inn.
• a penny-farthing bicycle.
Origin:
late Middle English: the noun partly via Old French; the adjective from Latin ordinarius ‘orderly’ (reinforced by French ordinaire ), from ordo, ordin- ‘order’.
in ordinary
• (in titles) by permanent appointment, especially to the royal household.
• "painter in ordinary to Her Majesty"
