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ordinary
adjective as in common, regular
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Weak matches
accustomed, customary, established, frequent, grassroots, habitual, popular, prevailing, quotidian, run-of-the-mill, settled, usual, wonted
adjective as in average; not distinctive
Strongest matches
common, conventional, dull, generic, humble, mediocre, normal, plain, simple, unremarkable, workaday
Strong matches
commonplace, fair, familiar, garden, homespun, household, inferior, mean, pedestrian, plastic, routine, vanilla
Weak matches
characterless, garden variety, habitual, indifferent, modest, no great shakes, prosaic, quotidian, run-of-the-mill, second-rate, so-so, stereotyped, undistinguished, uneventful, unexceptional, uninspired, unmemorable, unnoteworthy, unpretentious, usual, white-bread
Example Sentences
He said "for every Moscow strike on energy infrastructure - aimed at harming ordinary people before winter - there must be a sanctions response targeting all Russian energy, with no exceptions".
Google last month said its chip could make certain computations 13,000 times as fast as an ordinary computer, providing a taste of the advances that quantum computing could bring.
"This is no ordinary tree. We're talking about history, about civilisation, about a symbol," the 52-year-old said proudly, smiling behind his thick beard in the village of Al-Walajah, south of Jerusalem.
But even in such an epic struggle, small details and seemingly ordinary people play pivotal roles, shoving events in one direction or another.
It floated over the station, inspecting equipment, communicating with robots, and searching for anything out of the ordinary.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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