ordinariness
平凡性,普通性,平凡,平凡无奇
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Definitions
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- : of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
- : plain or undistinguished: ordinary clothes.
- : somewhat inferior or below average; mediocre.
- : customary; usual; normal: We plan to do the ordinary things this weekend.
- : Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. common, vulgar, or disreputable.
- : immediate, as contrasted with something that is delegated.
- : belonging to the regular staff or the fully recognized class.
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plural or·di·nar·ies.
- : the commonplace or average condition, degree, etc.: ability far above the ordinary.
- : something regular, customary, or usual.
- : Ecclesiastical. an order or form for divine service, especially that for saying Mass.the service of the Mass exclusive of the canon.
- : History/Historical. a member of the clergy appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death.
- : English Ecclesiastical Law. a bishop, archbishop, or other ecclesiastic or his deputy, in his capacity as an ex officio ecclesiastical authority.
- : a judge of a court of probate.
- : British. a complete meal in which all courses are included at one fixed price, as opposed to à la carte service.
- : a restaurant, public house, or dining room serving all guests and customers the same standard meal or fare.
- : penny-farthing.
- : Heraldry. any of the simplest and commonest charges, usually having straight or broadly curved edges.honorable ordinary.
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Examples
According to Heck, meteorite researchers are unlike other scientists in that they rely on ordinary people to recover samples rather than finding them on their own.
The record of this risk to public health, even in ordinary times, is clear.
Information gets out through the workings of gravity itself — just ordinary gravity with a single layer of quantum effects.
If it were counted as a bonus, it would be taxed like part of the executives’ salaries, at the higher ordinary income tax rate.
An FDA spokesperson said that nothing out of the ordinary had occurred.
There is an ordinariness, an indistinctness, a generalization, not even to be found in a flock of sheep.
Perhaps an opportunity would spring up from out of the sing-song ordinariness of my daily life—and what would I do then?
And withal, the ordinariness and the midland gumption of the scene were shot through with the bright exotic rays of romance!
He liked the fundamental ordinariness in Aaron, the commonness of the common man.
Mr. Hazlewood had carried with him a wonderful assurance of ordinariness.