Ordinary and Strange

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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
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Strange is an antonym for ordinary in topics: average, extraordinary.
Nearby Words: ordinal, ordinarily, ordinariness, ordination

Strange

Strange adjective - Different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion.
Usage example: the strange smell we'd noticed turned out, unhappily, to be from the dinner our host was making
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Ordinary is an antonym for strange in topics: odd, alien, deviating.
Nearby Words: strangeness, stranger, strangely
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  • I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin / Alien Catnip: Both strong coffee and, apparently, small amounts of ordinary chocolate will do strange things to Sholans.
    Source: Literature / Sholan Alliance
  • Manga / Tokyo ESP Urushiba Rinka is having a strange day.She was an ordinary girl with an ordinary life, until a flying penguin and a swarm of glowing fish swimming though the air changed everything.
    Source: Manga / Tokyo ESP
  • The strip Strange Hill in The Beezer was a variation—an ordinary teacher stuck in a horror-themed school.
    Source: Stranger in a Strange School
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