ordinary
adjective/ˈɔːrdneri/
Слово англійською: ordinary
Переклад ordinary українською: звича́йний
Детальний опис
- [usually before noun] not unusual or different in any way
- an ordinary sort of day
- in the ordinary course of events
- ordinary people like you and me
- This was no ordinary meeting.
- She was a perfectly ordinary little girl.
- They are just ordinary working folk.
- (disapproving) having no unusual or interesting features
- The meal was very ordinary.
Word Originlate Middle English: the noun partly via Old French; the adjective from Latin ordinarius ‘orderly’ (reinforced by French ordinaire), from ordo, ordin- ‘order’.
Idioms
in the ordinary way
- (British English) used to say what normally happens in a particular situation
- In the ordinary way, she's not a nervous person.
out of the ordinary
- unusual or different
- I'm looking for something a little more out of the ordinary.
- His behaviour was nothing out of the ordinary (= not unusual).