Ordinary
Ordinary adjective - Not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree.
Usage example: ordinary decency
Remarkable
Remarkable adjective - Different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion.
Usage example: one participant in the race had a remarkable walk that was half-run, half-skip
Both words in one sentence
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Not So Different: The crux of the story is that ordinary people of the USSR and the West are remarkable similar.
Source: Film / The Russia House -
Also Davan, a fairly ordinary-looking guy who is initially considered unutterably hideous by a remarkable number of people.
Source: Webcomic / Something*Positive -
Ordinary High-School Student: Nozomi isn't remarkable in any particular manner, something her mother and her report card Lampshade in the first episode.
Source: Anime / Rolling Girls
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Remarkable and Ordinary. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/ordinary/remarkable
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