Ordinary and Prominent

Ordinary

Ordinary adjective - Being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events.
Usage example: it was a perfectly ordinary and undistinguished shirt

Prominent is an antonym for ordinary.

Prominent

Prominent adjective - Likely to attract attention.

Ordinary is an antonym for prominent in topics: conspicuous, important.

Nearby Words: prominence, prominently

Both words in one sentence

  • Family-Friendly Firearms: Shop at Home catalogs of the time persistently tried to pass off the larger sets' prominent cannons as "telescopic lasers" similar in purpose to ordinary telescopes.
  • Most notably it was completely inverted in 2012, in which the two most prominent deaths of ordinary teenagers were Travyon Martin in February and Amanda Todd in October.
  • Fantastic Racism: Considerable animosity exists between ordinary humans and bloodliners, though it's not all that prominent in the story (yet).
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