unordinary

[uhn-awr-dn-er-ee]

adjective

1. unusual or uncommon.

   The weather was wet and cold, as expected—nothing too unordinary.

2. original, unique, or distinguished in some way; out of the ordinary.

   Find creative and unordinary handmade gifts for kids on our user-friendly website.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unordinary¹

un- ¹ ( def. ) + ordinary ( def. )

Example Sentences

Capital Pride Alliance, the organisation running this year's World Pride in DC, told the BBC it has recieved "an unordinary amount of questions and concerns".

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It’s banal yet unordinary, as evidenced by the teens’ opposing views of the creatures; the intolerant call them “critters” while others argue for their rights.

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In “Lookism,” a young, friendless man wakes up in a tall, handsome body; “The Remarried Empress” features a protagonist who is, well, remarried; “unOrdinary” centers on a teenager with a secret past that threatens to bring down his high school’s social hierarchy.

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“We kept using this phrase during a lot of development: we want the player to experience the unordinary lurking within the ordinary. Those walks within Tokyo can feel like a normal day’s commute, but there can be unordinary things that we can’t see.”

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But the candidate on the left, Sara Zemmahi, was wearing a headscarf — a decision that has become decidedly unordinary in French politics.

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