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ordinariness

/awr-dn-er-ee/US // ˈɔr dnˌɛr i //UK // (ˈɔːdənrɪ) //

平凡性,普通性,平凡,平凡无奇

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    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.