Ordinary

Adjective

 * 1)  Having regular jurisdiction (of a judge; now only used in certain phrases).
 * 2) Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.
 * 3) Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane (often deprecatory).
 * 4)   bad or undesirable.

Antonyms

 * special
 * extraordinary

Derived terms

 * ordinariness

Noun

 * 1)  A devotional manual.
 * 2)  A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of service, especially of Mass.
 * 3) A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.
 * 4)  A set portion of food, later as available for a fixed price at an inn or other eating establishment.
 * 5)  A place where such meals are served; a public tavern, inn.
 * 6) * 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.2.4:
 * they would be inquiring of every carrier and passenger what they had heard or seen, what news abroad? [...] as at an ordinary with us, bakehouse, or barber's shop.
 * 1) * 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 1:
 * it hath been usual with the honest and well-meaning host to provide a bill of fare which all persons may peruse at their first entrance into the house; and having thence acquainted themselves with the entertainment which they may expect, may either stay and regale with what is provided for them, or may depart to some other ordinary better accommodated to their taste.
 * 1)  One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess.
 * 2) An ordinary thing or person.
 * 3)  A penny-farthing bicycle.

Thesaurus
American plan, Attic, Babbittish, European plan, JA, Philistine, a la carte, accepted, accustomed, achievement, alerion, amicus curiae, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, assessor, average, azure, banal, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, barmaster, baseborn, baton, bearings, below the salt, bend, bend sinister, besetting, billet, bizarre, blazon, blazonry, boardinghouse, bordure, bourgeois, broad arrow, cadency mark, campy, canton, central, chancellor, chaplet, charge, chaste, chevron, chief, circuit judge, classic, classical, coat of arms, cockatrice, cockney, common, commonplace, conformable, consuetudinary, convention, conventional, coronet, couvert, cover, cover charge, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, curious, current, customary, demeaning, device, difference, differencing, different, disadvantaged, dominant, dorm, dormitory, doss house, dull, eagle, eccentric, epidemic, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, established, everyday, exceptional, expected, extraordinary, fair, falcon, familiar, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, flat, fleabag, fleur-de-lis, flophouse, frequent, frequentative, fret, fur, fusil, garden, garden variety, garden-variety, garland, general, generally accepted, griffin, guest house, gules, gyron, habitual, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, high-camp, homely, homespun, honor point, hospice, hostel, hostelry, hotel, household, humble, humdrum, impalement, impaling, in the shade, inescutcheon, inferior, infra dig, inn, insipid, intermediary, intermediate, judge advocate, judge ordinary, junior, jurat, justice in eyre, justice of assize, kitschy, label, lay judge, legal assessor, less, lesser, lion, lodging house, low, low-camp, lowborn, lowbred, lower, lowly, lozenge, mantling, many, many times, marshaling, martlet, mascle, master, matter-of-fact, mean, medial, median, mediocre, medium, metal, middle-class, middle-of-the-road, middling, military judge, minor, moderate, modest, motto, mullet, mundane, natural, no great shakes, nombril point, nonclerical, nondescript, norm, normal, normative, not rare, obtaining, octofoil, odd, of common occurrence, offbeat, oft-repeated, oftentime, ombudsman, or, original, orle, outlandish, pale, paly, pandemic, passable, pean, peasant, peculiar, pedestrian, pension, pheon, picturesque, plain, plastic, plebeian, poetryless, police judge, pop, popular, posada, predominant, predominating, prescribed, prescriptive, presiding judge, prevailing, prevalent, probate judge, prosaic, prosing, prosy, provincial, pub, public, public house, puisne judge, pure, pure and simple, purpure, quaint, quarter, quartering, quotidian, rampant, rare, received, recorder, recurrent, regnant, regular, regulation, reigning, rife, roadhouse, rooming house, rose, routine, rude, ruling, run-of-mine, run-of-the-mill, running, sable, saltire, scutcheon, second rank, second string, secondary, self-service, service, servile, set, shabby-genteel, shield, simple, singular, so so, spread eagle, standard, status quo, stereotyped, stock, strange, striking, sub, subaltern, subject, subordinary, subordinate, subservient, suburban, tavern, tenne, the common, the commonplace, the normal, the ordinary, the usual, thick-coming, third rank, third string, third-estate, time-honored, tincture, tiresome, torse, traditional, tressure, typical, uncommon, unconventional, underprivileged, undistinguished, unembellished, uneventful, unexceptional, unexpected, unfamiliar, ungenteel, unicorn, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninspired, unique, universal, unnoteworthy, unpoetic, unpretentious, unrefined, unremarkable, unromantic, unspectacular, unusual, usual, vair, vapid, vernacular, vert, vice-chancellor, vulgar, weird, widespread, wonted, workaday, workday, wreath, yale

Etymology
From ordenaire:, ordenarie: etc., from  ordinarius:, from ordo:.

Adjective

 * Arabic: عادي, مؤلوف
 * Armenian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 普通, 平常, 平凡
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hindi: आम, साधारण
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 通常, 普通, 平凡


 * Korean: ,
 * Latin: ordinarius, ordinaria , ordinarium ; cotidianus
 * Latvian: parasts
 * Macedonian:
 * Persian: عادی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, обычный
 * Slovene: navaden, običajen
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:, olağan
 * Urdu: عام

Noun

 * Finnish:


 * Macedonian: