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extraordinary
[ ik-strawr-dn-er-ee, ek-struh-awr- ]
adjective
- beyond what is usual, ordinary, regular, or established:
extraordinary costs.
Synonyms: inordinate
- exceptional in character, amount, extent, degree, etc.; noteworthy; remarkable:
extraordinary speed;
an extraordinary man.
Synonyms: signal, special, phenomenal, rare, singular, uncommon
- (of an official, employee, etc.) outside of or additional to the ordinary staff; having a special, often temporary task or responsibility:
minister extraordinary and plenipotentiary.
extraordinary
/ ɪkˈstrɔːdənrɪ; -dənərɪ /
adjective
- very unusual, remarkable, or surprising
- not in an established manner, course, or order
- employed for particular events or purposes
- usually postpositive (of an official, etc) additional or subordinate to the usual one
a minister extraordinary
Derived Forms
- exˈtraordinariness, noun
- exˈtraordinarily, adverb
Other Words From
- ex·traor·di·nar·i·ly [ik-strawr-dn-, air, -, uh, -lee, ek-str, uh, -awr-], adverb
- ex·traordi·nari·ness noun
- unex·traordi·nary adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of extraordinary1
Word History and Origins
Origin of extraordinary1
Example Sentences
The Food That Built America, a new podcast from OZY and The History Channel, tells the extraordinary true stories behind some of your favorite foods and brands.
The thing that was so extraordinary about what happened in the pandemic is what happened in August and September.
As Henderson and Foege detail in their books, there were extraordinary challenges that often looked utterly insurmountable in the quest to eradicate smallpox.
On this front, outcomes from the Pfizer and Moderna trials are extraordinary.
The Food That Built America, a new podcast from OZY and the History Channel, tells the extraordinary true stories behind some of your favorite foods and brands.
This breach is an extraordinary emotional drag on the exhausted population.
And yet our country has redefined citizenship in some extraordinary ways since its inception.
This is an extraordinary recording that deserves to be much better known.
“It is extraordinary that in one week of contemporary art auctions almost $2 billion worth of art was sold,” he says.
The history of horrors in the North Caucasus is so extraordinary and so long as to seem almost otherworldly.
At this moment an extraordinary commotion began among the watches.
The fingers of all the clocks in the house were revolving with the most extraordinary rapidity--she was helpless.
An extraordinary eruption of mount Vesuvius commenced, which in ten days had advanced ten miles from its original source.
Why expect that extraordinary virtues should be in one person united, when one virtue makes a man extraordinary?
The only thing that at all tended to shake this conviction, was the extraordinary poltroonery of our new captive.
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