The synonym for the word ordinary is

How does the adjective ordinary contrast with its synonyms?

Some common synonyms of ordinary are common, familiar, plain, popular, and vulgar. While all these words mean «generally met with and not in any way special, strange, or unusual,» ordinary stresses conformance in quality or kind with the regular order of things.

When would common be a good substitute for ordinary?

While in some cases nearly identical to ordinary, common implies usual everyday quality or frequency of occurrence and may additionally suggest inferiority or coarseness.

When is it sensible to use familiar instead of ordinary?

Although the words familiar and ordinary have much in common, familiar stresses the fact of being generally known and easily recognized.

Where would plain be a reasonable alternative to ordinary?

The words plain and ordinary can be used in similar contexts, but plain is likely to suggest homely simplicity.

In what contexts can popular take the place of ordinary?

While the synonyms popular and ordinary are close in meaning, popular applies to what is accepted by or prevalent among people in general sometimes in contrast to upper classes or special groups.

How do vulgar and popular relate to one another, in the sense of ordinary?

Vulgar, otherwise similar to popular, is likely to carry derogatory connotations (as of inferiority or coarseness).

What is another word for ordinary?

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• adj.

  • all (adjective)

  • ordinary.

  • average (adjective)

  • mid,
  • boilerplate,
  • middling,
  • unexceptional,
  • standard,
  • mezzo,
  • nowhere,
  • stereotype,
  • run-of-the-mill,
  • halfway,
  • everyday,
  • midmost,
  • middle-of-the-road,
  • dominant,
  • predominant,
  • common,
  • median.

  • average; not distinctive (adjective)

  • modest,
  • no great shakes,
  • unremarkable,
  • second-rate,
  • household,
  • prosaic,
  • plastic,
  • simple,
  • generic,
  • unnoteworthy,
  • unpretentious.

  • banal (adjective)

  • more nothing,
  • more noplace,
  • wishywashy,
  • more pabulum,
  • tripest,
  • un original,
  • wishy washy,
  • more cornball,
  • most cornball,
  • un-original,
  • most zero,
  • most noplace,
  • wishy-washy,
  • most cornfed,
  • most nothing,
  • more zero,
  • more cornfed,
  • most pabulum,
  • triper.

  • cheap (adjective)

  • cruddy,
  • rinky-dink,
  • two bit,
  • glitzy,
  • no bargain,
  • tawdry,
  • catchpenny,
  • no good,
  • small time,
  • secondrate,
  • scroungy,
  • junky,
  • rubbishy,
  • shoddy,
  • rinkydink,
  • second rate.

  • common, regular (adjective)

  • general,
  • wonted,
  • settled,
  • public,
  • frequent,
  • prevailing,
  • habitual,
  • quotidian,
  • established,
  • traditional,
  • routine.

  • commonplace (adjective)

  • matter-of-course,
  • most matter of course,
  • most characterless,
  • more matter of course,
  • most dime-a-dozen,
  • more dime a dozen,
  • more prevalent,
  • more workaday,
  • more matter-of-course,
  • more characterless,
  • most obvious,
  • more dime-a-dozen,
  • obvious,
  • most worn out,
  • un noteworthy,
  • un-noteworthy,
  • starch,
  • un-interesting,
  • most dime a dozen,
  • most matter-of-course,
  • most workaday,
  • starchest,
  • un interesting,
  • more unnoteworthy,
  • Starcher,
  • most unnoteworthy.

  • conventional (adjective)

  • most tralatitious,
  • most ritual,
  • pre-dominant,
  • pre dominant,
  • more tralatitious,
  • wellknown,
  • well known,
  • more ritual,
  • buttondown.

  • customary (adjective)

  • under stood,
  • re-cognized,
  • more stipulated,
  • most stipulated,
  • prescriptive,
  • more regulation,
  • under-stood,
  • in groove,
  • uni-versal,
  • most regulation,
  • more frequent,
  • re cognized,
  • uni versal,
  • standard operating procedure.

  • cut-and-dried (adjective)

  • prearranged,
  • in the cards,
  • cut and dried.

  • daily (adjective)

  • circadian,
  • once a day,
  • from day to day,
  • diurnal,
  • once daily,
  • most often,
  • day by day.

  • dull (adjective)

  • repetitive,
  • out-of-date,
  • repetitious,
  • earthbound,
  • prosy,
  • uninspiring,
  • usual thing,
  • unexciting,
  • out of date,
  • big yawn,
  • longwinded,
  • oft-repeated.

  • everyday (adjective)

  • un-remarkable,
  • most whitebread,
  • more whitebread,
  • un remarkable.

  • fair (adjective)

  • most fairish,
  • in different,
  • up standard,
  • de cent,
  • de-cent,
  • more fairish,
  • FAIRER,
  • in-different.

  • familiar (adjective)

  • more familiar,
  • un-sophisticated,
  • un sophisticated,
  • re cognizable,
  • repeated,
  • most recognizable,
  • more recognizable,
  • re-cognizable,
  • recognizable,
  • un-ceremonious,
  • un ceremonious.

  • general (adjective)

  • ex tensive.

  • habitual (adjective)

  • recurrent,
  • disciplined.

  • homely (adjective)

  • dis-gusting,
  • un-alluring,
  • un alluring,
  • most unaesthetic,
  • dis gusting,
  • more unalluring,
  • more unaesthetic,
  • most unalluring,
  • Unalluring,
  • un-aesthetic,
  • un aesthetic.

  • homespun (adjective)

  • more handcrafted,
  • un-refined,
  • most handcrafted,
  • un refined,
  • handmade.

  • household (adjective)

  • most family,
  • more family,
  • more domiciliary,
  • most domiciliary.

  • humble (adjective)

  • reverential,
  • Low-born,
  • supplicatory,
  • trivial,
  • proletarian,
  • timorous,
  • self-conscious,
  • unassuming,
  • menial,
  • unambitious,
  • low-ranking.

  • humdrum (adjective)

  • more treadmill,
  • un varied,
  • more white-bread,
  • most white-bread,
  • mono-tone,
  • most unvaried,
  • most white bread,
  • more monotone,
  • most toneless,
  • most treadmill,
  • most monotone,
  • more unvaried,
  • most plodding,
  • un-varied,
  • more white bread,
  • most banausic,
  • mono tone,
  • more plodding,
  • more banausic,
  • more toneless.

  • ignoble (adjective)

  • dis-graceful,
  • in famous,
  • most peasant,
  • dis graceful,
  • dis-honorable,
  • de graded,
  • scurviest,
  • more peasant,
  • de-graded,
  • de generate,
  • dis honorable,
  • scurvier,
  • de-generate.

  • inconspicuous (adjective)

  • low key,
  • Unconspicuous,
  • unemphatic,
  • low-profile.

  • inferior (adjective)

  • junker,
  • low-grade,
  • low-rent,
  • good-for-nothing,
  • most inferior,
  • low-quality.

  • informal (adjective)

  • more low pressure,
  • most free-and-easy,
  • most throwaway,
  • most low-pressure,
  • unfussiest,
  • un official,
  • more lowpressure,
  • most improv,
  • more low-pressure,
  • un constrained,
  • most low pressure,
  • more free-and-easy,
  • un fussiest,
  • un-restrained,
  • un-fussiest,
  • more free and easy,
  • more throwaway,
  • lowpressure,
  • in-formal,
  • un-conventional,
  • un-fussy,
  • most lowpressure,
  • down home,
  • most free and easy,
  • in formal,
  • un-fussier,
  • un conventional,
  • folksy,
  • un-official,
  • un fussy,
  • unfussier,
  • un fussier,
  • more improv.

  • insipid (adjective)

  • in-sipid,
  • in nocuous,
  • in-nocuous,
  • more ho-hum,
  • in sipid,
  • more nebbish,
  • more ho hum,
  • more hohum,
  • most nebbish,
  • most hohum,
  • most ho hum,
  • most ho-hum.

  • lay (adjective)

  • non professional,
  • non clerical,
  • more unsacred,
  • most nonspecialist,
  • lay,
  • more nonspecialist,
  • non specialist,
  • in-expert,
  • un-sacred,
  • most nonclerical,
  • more nonclerical,
  • most unsacred,
  • un sacred,
  • in expert.

  • literal (adjective)

  • to the letter,
  • unexaggerated,
  • not figurative,
  • unerring,
  • undeviating,
  • the letter.

  • low-grade (adjective)

  • low grade,
  • lowgrade.

  • low-quality (adjective)

  • lowquality.

  • lowly (adjective)

  • cast down,
  • lowborn,
  • unwashed.

  • mean (adjective)

  • down-at-heel,
  • down at heel.

  • medial (adjective)

  • medial.

  • mediocre (adjective)

  • suburban,
  • mundane,
  • of poor quality.

  • medium (adjective)

  • parrer,
  • parrest.

  • middle-class (adjective)

  • middleclass.

  • moderate (adjective)

  • piddling.

  • natural (adjective)

  • in-generate,
  • more natal,
  • most ingenerate,
  • in-voluntary,
  • in-born,
  • most natal,
  • un-acquired,
  • in voluntary,
  • un controlled,
  • un-controlled,
  • more ingenerate,
  • in born,
  • more unacquired,
  • uni-form,
  • most unacquired,
  • in generate,
  • uni form,
  • un acquired.

  • nondescript (adjective)

  • unclassifiable,
  • unclassified.

  • open-and-shut (adjective)

  • nailed down,
  • undisguised,
  • Cinched,
  • open and shut,
  • self-explanatory,
  • clear cut,
  • sewn up,
  • clear as a bell,
  • iced,
  • in the bag.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)

  • cheap,
  • pretty good,
  • stock,
  • usual,
  • overused,
  • looked for,
  • mean,
  • trite,
  • commonplace,
  • banausic,
  • whitebread,
  • fairish,
  • prototypical,
  • up to standard,
  • domiciliary,
  • matter of fact,
  • dull,
  • lowly,
  • in the groove,
  • regular,
  • in character,
  • scurvy,
  • inconspicuous,
  • stereotyped,
  • pedestrian,
  • familiar tune,
  • middle-class,
  • medium,
  • Non-professional,
  • accustomed,
  • paradigmatic,
  • seasonal,
  • fairly good,
  • vernacular,
  • not bad,
  • dull as dishwater,
  • characterless,
  • stereotypical,
  • plain,
  • plebeian,
  • conventional,
  • not beautiful,
  • stereotypic,
  • same old,
  • Mildewed,
  • low pressure,
  • in demand,
  • uninspired,
  • customary,
  • informal,
  • mediocre,
  • unaesthetic,
  • unimaginative,
  • cornfed,
  • throwaway,
  • run of the mill,
  • passable,
  • ho-hum,
  • vulgar,
  • hard on the eyes,
  • average,
  • Ingenerate,
  • low quality,
  • by numbers,
  • wornout,
  • in use,
  • handcrafted,
  • grinder,
  • non-clerical,
  • hohum,
  • lusterless,
  • low-pressure,
  • uneventful,
  • plain-featured,
  • in established usage,
  • ho hum,
  • unvaried,
  • nondescript,
  • better than nothing,
  • tolerable,
  • so-so,
  • moderate,
  • laid back,
  • in rut,
  • boiler plate,
  • in a rut,
  • cliched,
  • dime-a-dozen,
  • humdrum,
  • fair,
  • in keeping,
  • unfussy,
  • Unacquired,
  • Familiar,
  • natural,
  • all-embracing,
  • fair enough,
  • prototypic,
  • platitudinal,
  • without ceremony,
  • white bread,
  • banal,
  • not too bad,
  • respectable,
  • in style,
  • prototypal,
  • Proser,
  • popular,
  • uncomely,
  • used up,
  • humble,
  • literal,
  • used-up,
  • platitudinous,
  • tralatitious,
  • unsacred,
  • cut-and-dried,
  • nonspecialist,
  • button down,
  • used to,
  • homely,
  • cornball,
  • nonclerical,
  • normal,
  • noplace,
  • readymade,
  • typical,
  • free-and-easy,
  • white-bread,
  • IMPROV,
  • typic,
  • open-and-shut,
  • chainer,
  • workaday,
  • non-specialist,
  • garden variety,
  • natal,
  • working-class,
  • daily,
  • poor,
  • unlovely,
  • ignoble,
  • toneless,
  • warmed-over,
  • inferior,
  • homespun.

  • overused (adjective)

  • over-worked,
  • over worked,
  • over used,
  • over-used.

  • pedestrian (adjective)

  • truistic.

  • plain (adjective)

  • more plain-featured,
  • most plain featured,
  • plainfeatured,
  • hard the eyes,
  • more plainfeatured,
  • de-formed,
  • plain featured,
  • most plain-featured,
  • hard on eyes,
  • de formed,
  • more plain featured,
  • most plainfeatured,
  • hard eyes.

  • plebeian (adjective)

  • most working-class,
  • most working class,
  • un cultivated,
  • most workingclass,
  • more workingclass,
  • workingclass,
  • un-cultivated,
  • more working-class,
  • more working class.

  • poor (adjective)

  • SUBPAR.,
  • poorer,
  • subnormal,
  • niggardly.

  • popular (adjective)

  • more demanded,
  • most adopted,
  • most demanded,
  • more adopted,
  • more embraced,
  • most embraced.

  • prevailing (adjective)

  • most predominating,
  • more all embracing,
  • most all embracing,
  • most preponderating,
  • pre dominating,
  • allembracing,
  • most all-embracing,
  • pre vailing,
  • pre-vailing,
  • more preponderating,
  • more all-embracing,
  • worldwide,
  • most allembracing,
  • all embracing,
  • pre-dominating,
  • more predominating.

  • prosaic (adjective)

  • yawner,
  • most lusterless,
  • more lusterless,
  • diddliest,
  • prosest,
  • yawnest,
  • diddlier.

  • regular (adjective)

  • steady,
  • rhythmic,
  • epochal,
  • orthodox,
  • canonical,
  • cyclical,
  • universal,
  • constant,
  • metronomic,
  • monotonous,
  • continual,
  • periodic,
  • Predominating,
  • chronic.

  • respectable (adjective)

  • be coming,
  • Redoubted,
  • well-thought-of,
  • be fitting.

  • routine (adjective)

  • more seasonal,
  • most seasonal.

  • second-class (adjective)

  • second-class,
  • second class.

  • so-so (adjective)

  • SOSO,
  • so so.

  • stereotyped (adjective)

  • worn thin,
  • played out,
  • mass-produced,
  • well-worn.

  • stereotypical (adjective)

  • stereo typical,
  • stereo-typical.

  • stock (adjective)

  • stocker.

  • succinct (adjective)

  • stark,
  • casual,
  • honest,
  • straightforward,
  • unadorned,
  • candid,
  • intelligible,
  • uncluttered,
  • unpoetical,
  • frank,
  • clear,
  • bald,
  • outspoken,
  • blunt,
  • Plain-spoken,
  • direct.

  • tolerable (adjective)

  • be-arable,
  • sustainable,
  • be arable,
  • more unexceptionable,
  • unexceptionable,
  • most unexceptionable,
  • more sustainable,
  • most sustainable,
  • un-impeachable,
  • un-exceptionable,
  • un exceptionable,
  • un impeachable.

  • trite (adjective)

  • usedup,
  • more used up,
  • most used up,
  • more mildewed,
  • most mildewed,
  • more cliche,
  • most used-up,
  • most ready made,
  • ready made,
  • most cliche,
  • more used-up,
  • motheaten,
  • most usedup,
  • chainest,
  • most ready-made,
  • more usedup.

  • typical (adjective)

  • re-presentative,
  • most patterned,
  • more patterned,
  • re presentative.

  • uncomely (adjective)

  • not much for looks,
  • not much to look at,
  • short on looks.

  • unconspicuous (adjective)

  • more having,
  • un-conspicuous,
  • most having,
  • un conspicuous,
  • Having.

  • uneventful (adjective)

  • unfateful.

  • unexciting (adjective)

  • long winded,
  • un exciting,
  • un-exciting.

  • unimaginative (adjective)

  • un imaginative,
  • un-creative,
  • un-imaginative,
  • un creative,
  • un romantic,
  • un-romantic.

  • uninspired (adjective)

  • unimpressed,
  • unmotivated,
  • phoned in.

  • unlovely (adjective)

  • un loveliest,
  • un-lovelier,
  • un-lovely,
  • un lovelier,
  • un lovely,
  • un-loveliest.

  • unmotivated (adjective)

  • un motivated,
  • un-motivated.

  • unnoticeable (adjective)

  • unnoticeable.

  • unwashed (adjective)

  • un-washed,
  • de-classed,
  • de classed,
  • un washed.

  • used to (adjective)

  • at home with,
  • more acclimated,
  • most acclimated.

  • usual (adjective)

  • grindest.

  • vernacular (adjective)

  • plebian,
  • more plebian,
  • most plebian.

  • warmed-over (adjective)

  • warmed over,
  • warmedover.

• n.

  •
  • A-list,
  • chief,
  • B-list,
  • below,
  • born,
  • genteel,
  • above,
  • elite.
  •
  • surprise.
  •
  • good.
  •
  • rule.

  • cut-and-dry (noun)

  • cut-and-dry.

  • ordinary (noun)

  • ordinary bicycle,
  • run-of-the-mine.

  • Other relevant words: (noun)

  • Table D’hote.

  • table d’hote (noun)

  • Ordinaries,
  • communal table.

• v.

  • ornamented (verb)

  • elaborate.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)

  • quality.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • flesh and blood,
  • ordinarily,
  • overblown,
  • colloquial,
  • popularize,
  • vox pop,
  • routinely,
  • second nature,
  • formulaic,
  • cookie-cutter,
  • garden-variety,
  • middle-sized,
  • normality,
  • unmemorable,
  • no-frills,
  • normalcy,
  • unnatural,
  • commonly,
  • rough-and-ready,
  • demotic,
  • day-to-day.
  •
  • popularly,
  • pro forma,
  • The,
  • middle,
  • populist,
  • garden,
  • vanilla,
  • unadventurous,
  • mainstream,
  • anonymous,
  • norm,
  • undistinguished,
  • human.
  •
  • crude,
  • rude.
  •
  • basic.
  •
  • folk,
  • primitive.
  •
  • indifferent,
  • private.
  •
  • straight.
  •
  • right.

  • routine

  • matter of course.

How to use «Ordinary» in context?

Paraphrases for Ordinary:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    everyday, mundane, normal, rank-and-file.
  • Proper noun, singular
    normal.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    extraordinary.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    conventional, customary, daily, day-to-day, decent, easy, exceptional, generic, lambda, mere, proper, shared, traditional, trivial, typical, uncomplicated, unusual, vulgar, widespread, citizens, DER, non-political, non-proprietary, general-.
  • Proper noun, singular
    gets.
  • Noun, plural
    Disabilities, Adults, Schools, notes, courts, nations, ratings, Ordinaires.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    notes.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    banal, commonplace, habitual, simple, straightforward.

Hypernym for Ordinary:

• n.

  • artifact
    bend, bend sinister, fess, bar sinister, Bend Dexter, fesse.

Hyponym for Ordinary:

• n.

  • artifact
    heraldic bearing, bearing, armorial bearing, charge.
  • person
    judge, justice, man of the cloth, clergyman, jurist, reverend.
  • state
    condition.