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== | Main form: ''ordinary'', [[word type::adjective]]. Used restrictively (restricting the subject) or emphatically (to emphasize the subject, without actually adding any detail). In sciences, typically used in a binary sense (something is either normal or is not normal), whereas in the social sciences and daily parlance, typically used to describe position on a wider scale. | ||
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* Something customary, typical, expected, routine, or average. [[Similar::typical]], [[Similar::standard]], [[Similar::average]], [[Similar::routine]], [[Similar::normal]], [[Similar::expected]] | |||
* Something mundane or boring, lacking in special qualities. | |||
Opposite words: [[Opposite::special]], [[Opposite::extraordinary]] | |||
Derived words: [[Derived::Extraordinary]] | |||
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Latest revision as of 22:00, 5 August 2008
Main form: ordinary, adjective. Used restrictively (restricting the subject) or emphatically (to emphasize the subject, without actually adding any detail). In sciences, typically used in a binary sense (something is either normal or is not normal), whereas in the social sciences and daily parlance, typically used to describe position on a wider scale.
Typical use:
- Something customary, typical, expected, routine, or average. typical, standard, average, routine, normal, expected
- Something mundane or boring, lacking in special qualities.
Opposite words: special, extraordinary
Derived words: Extraordinary