adj. 1 usual, normal, expected, common, general, customary, routine, typical, habitual, accustomed, traditional, regular, everyday, familiar, set, humdrum This wine is quite good for ordinary drinking Just display ordinary good manners when you meet the queen. 2 common, conventional, modest, plain, simple, prosaic, homespun, commonplace, run-of-the-mill, everyday, average, unpretentious, workaday, mediocre, fair, passable, so so, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable, uninspired, pedestrian, bourgeois, peasant, provincial, unrefined, Colloq Brit common or garden, US common-or-garden variety, garden-variety They bought a rather ordinary house in an inferior neighbourhood
n. 3 standard, norm, average, status quo, convention, expected Saint-Gaudens' architectural designs are far from the ordinary 4 out of the ordinary. extraordinary, unusual, uncommon, strange, unfamiliar, different, unexpected, unconventional, curious, eccentric, peculiar, rare, exceptional, original, singular, unique, odd, bizarre, weird, offbeat, outlandish, striking, quaint, picturesque She was looking for a gift that was a little out of the ordinary, so I suggested a pet tarantula