Tra từ ordinary - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

or·din·ary [ordinary ordinaries] BrE [ˈɔːdnri] NAmE [ˈɔːrdneri] adjective
1. 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.
2. (disapproving)having no unusual or interesting features
• The meal was very ordinary.
compare ↑extraordinary
Idioms: ↑in the ordinary way ▪ ↑out of the ordinary
Derived Word: ↑ordinariness

Word Origin:
late Middle English: the noun partly via Old French; the adjective from Latin ordinarius ‘orderly’ (reinforced by French ordinaire), from ordo, ordin- ‘order’.

Thesaurus:
ordinary adj.
1.
•We were an ordinary family.
normal • • average • • typical • • common •
Opp: extraordinary
the ordinary/normal/average/common man
a/an ordinary/normal/average person
a/an ordinary/normal/average/typical working day
in the ordinary/normal course of events/business/things
Ordinary or normal? Sth that is normal is as it should be or as you would expect; the word ordinary makes no comment about how things should be, only about how things are, whether this is good or bad:
•Her temperature was normal.
✗ Her temperature was ordinary.:
•It's normal to feel tired after such a long journey.
✗ It's ordinary to feel tired after such a long journey.
2. (disapproving)
•The meal was very ordinary.
unremarkable • |often disapproving average • |often approving plain • • simple •
Opp: special
an ordinary/average sort of person/thing
a/an ordinary/unremarkable/average/simple person
ordinary/average players

Example Bank:
•It was a perfectly ordinary day.
•The meal was pretty ordinary.
•The wines produced were at best very ordinary.
•He had an ordinary sort of face.
•He was not a nervous person in the ordinary way.
•I lead a very ordinary life.
•I used to dream of an ordinary life.
•It began as an ordinary sort of day.
•It was, for most ordinary citizens, a time of prosperity.
•Nowadays even a very ordinary London flat costs a fortune.
•Poetry differs from ordinary language.
•She doubted that, in ordinary circumstances, the two would have got on well together.
•The images can be printed on ordinary paper.
•These plates are for ordinary, everyday use.
•We were an ordinary family.