Definition of "ordinary" in inglés

noun

1. A person with authority; authority, ordinance.

2. Something ordinary or regular.

3. A book setting out ordinary or regular conduct.

adjective

1. (law, of a judge) Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.

2. Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.

   • On an ordinary day I wake up at nine o'clock, work for six hours, and then go to the gym.

3. Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory.

   • I live a very ordinary life most of the time, but every year I spend a week in Antarctica.
   • He looked so ordinary, I never thought he'd be capable of murder.
   • a. 1859, Thomas Macaulay, "Samuel Johnson," in 1871, Lady Trevelyan (Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan, editor), The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 7, page 325, An ordinary lad would have acquired little or no useful knowledge in such a way: but much that was dull to ordinary lads was interesting to Samuel.

4. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, informal) Bad or undesirable.

   • 1983 September 20, Bruce Stannard, Australia II Joins Our Greats, The Age, republished 2003, David Headon (editor), The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection, page 480, It was, in some ways a sad, almost pathetic sight to see this great American boat which had fought so hard throughout the cup summer, now looking very ordinary indeed.
   • 1961, Joanna White, quoted in 2005, A. James Hammerton, Alistair Thomson, Ten Pound Poms: Australia′s Invisible Migrants, page 80, For myself, I loved adventure and travelling. I′d already done quite a bit of travelling in Europe and — couldn′t get enough of it and whilst my marriage, at that stage, was very happy, he was very entrenched as a Londoner, Cockney, absolutely Cockney Londoner, and I could see that our future was pretty ordinary and so my hidden agenda I suppose was to drag him out to Australia and hope that both our lifestyles would improve and there would be new opportunities.