ordinary

Meanings

Noun

• A person with authority; authority, ordinance.
• Something ordinary or regular.

Adjective

• Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.
• Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.
• Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory.
• Bad or undesirable.

Related

Opposite words

• extraordinary, special

Origin

• From Anglo-Norman ordenarie, ordenaire et al., Middle French ordinaire, and their source, Medieval Latin ordinarius, noun use of Latin ōrdinārius ("regular, orderly"), from ordo.