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Adjective ordinary has 2 senses

ordinary - not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine"
Antonyms: extraordinary, bonzer, exceeding, exceptional, olympian, prodigious, surpassing, howling, marvelous, marvellous, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous, fantastic, phenomenal, one, preternatural, pyrotechnic, rare, uncommon, remarkable, singular, some, special, wonderworking, frightful, great
average, ordinary - lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"
Antonym: uncommon (indirect, via common)

Noun ordinary has 5 senses

ordinary - a judge of a probate court
--₁ is a kind of judge, justice, jurist, magistrate
ordinary - the expected or commonplace condition or situation; "not out of the ordinary"
--₂ is a kind of condition
ordinary - a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death
--₃ is a kind of clergyman, reverend, man of the cloth
ordinary, ordinary bicycle - an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel
--₄ is a kind of bicycle, bike, wheel, cycle
ordinary - (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields
--₅ is a kind of charge, bearing, heraldic bearing, armorial bearing
--₅ has particulars:
bend, bend dexter; fesse, fess; bar sinister, bend sinister