Intraordinary

Quick meaning: Intraordinary is an adjective meaning (rare, nonstandard) Falling within normal parameters; normal, ordinary.

Meaning

(rare, nonstandard) Falling within normal parameters; normal, ordinary.

Example Sentences

"It is a place outside of place," Eunida answered. "Extra-ordinary as opposed to intra-ordinary."

What is especially frightening about Pet Sematary [1983, by Stephen King] is that there is nothing extraordinary about it. It is, in a sense, "intraordinary."

It goes a great way perhaps towards explaining the secretion of urine, the formation of halitus from the lungs, the insensible and sensible perspiration from the other parts of animals, and the curious and intraordinary production of watery fluids [...]

My arguments will vary in strength and appeal, but I hope that they are usefully suggestive and present at the minimum a hypothesis worth entertaining. Perhaps we can make some sense of this extraordinary work by making it a little more "intraordinary".

Word Forms

• intra-ordinary

Synonyms for intraordinary

Depending on context, synonyms include unexceptional, unremarkable, average, medial, basic, bog-standard.

Antonyms for intraordinary

Common opposites include extraordinary, superordinary, supraordinary.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include intra-ordinary, ultramundane, extramundane, transnormal, supramundane, supermundane.

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