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extraordinary
Overview of adj extraordinary
The adj extraordinary has 3 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (12) extraordinary -- (beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable; "extraordinary authority"; "an extraordinary achievement"; "her extraordinary beauty"; "enjoyed extraordinary popularity"; "an extraordinary capacity for work"; "an extraordinary session of the legislature")
2. (2) extraordinary, over-the-top, sinful -- (far more than usual or expected; "an extraordinary desire for approval"; "it was an over-the-top experience")
3. (1) extraordinary -- ((of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials; "an ambassador extraordinary")
Grep of noun extraordinary
envoy extraordinary
Antonyms of adj extraordinary
3 senses of extraordinary
Sense 1
extraordinary (vs. ordinary)
ordinary (vs. extraordinary)
=> average, fair, mediocre, middling
=> trivial
=> banausic
=> characterless, nondescript
=> common
=> commonplace
=> cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry
=> everyday, mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday
=> indifferent, so-so(predicate)
=> run-of-the-mill, run-of-the-mine, mine run, unexceptional
Sense 2
extraordinary, over-the-top, sinful
INDIRECT (VIA immoderate) -> moderate
Sense 3
extraordinary(predicate)
INDIRECT (VIA unusual) -> usual
Similarity of adj extraordinary
3 senses of extraordinary
Sense 1
extraordinary (vs. ordinary)
=> bonzer
=> exceeding, exceptional, olympian, prodigious, surpassing
=> extraorinaire(postnominal)
=> fantastic, grand, howling(prenominal), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(prenominal), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous
=> fantastic, phenomenal
=> frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous
=> great
=> one(prenominal)
=> preternatural, uncanny
=> pyrotechnic
=> rare, uncommon
=> remarkable, singular
=> some
=> special
=> wonderworking
Also See> incomparable#1, uncomparable#1; uncommon#1; unusual#1
Sense 2
extraordinary, over-the-top, sinful
=> immoderate (vs. moderate)
Sense 3
extraordinary(predicate)
=> unusual (vs. usual)
Pertainyms of adj extraordinary
Attributes of adj extraordinary
1 of 3 senses of extraordinary
Sense 1
extraordinary (vs. ordinary)
=> ordinariness, mundaneness, mundanity
Domain of adj extraordinary
Domain Terms of adj extraordinary
Familiarity of adj extraordinary
extraordinary used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Grep of adj extraordinary
extraordinary
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