1. Not exceptional in any way especially in quality, ability, size or degree
   "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine"; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"
    
2. Lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered
   "the ordinary man in the street";
   - average
    
3. (law) having regular jurisdiction
   "The ordinary courts handle most civil and criminal cases"

1. The expected or commonplace condition or situation
   "not out of the ordinary"
    
2. (law) a judge of a probate court
   "The ordinary reviewed the will and approved its execution"
    
3. A clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death
   "The ordinary visited the prisoner to offer spiritual guidance before the execution"
    
4. An early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel
   "The museum displayed an ordinary bicycle from the late 19th century";
   - ordinary bicycle
    
5. (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields
   "The coat of arms featured a cross as its ordinary"

Derived forms: ordinaries

See also: average, banausic, bog-standard [Brit, informal], characterless, common, commonplace, cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry, everyday, fair, indifferent, mediocre, middling, mine run, mundane, mundaneness, mundanity, nondescript, ordinariness, quotidian, routine, run-of-the-mill, run-of-the-mine, so-so, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual, workaday

Type of: armorial bearing, bearing, bicycle, bike, charge, condition, cycle, heraldic bearing, judge, jurist, justice, reverend

Antonym: extraordinary

Encyclopedia: Ordinary, Virginia