unordinary
Americanadjective
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unusual or uncommon.
The weather was wet and cold, as expected—nothing too unordinary.
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original, unique, or distinguished in some way; out of the ordinary.
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Etymology
Origin of unordinary
Example Sentences
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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".
From BBC
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.
From New York Times
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.
From New York Times
“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.”
From The Verge
But the candidate on the left, Sara Zemmahi, was wearing a headscarf — a decision that has become decidedly unordinary in French politics.
From Washington Post
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