A judge of a probate court.

Roget 298: eating etc. v.; deglutition, gulp, epulation^†, mastication, manducation^†, rumination; gluttony etc. 957.    [eating specific foods] hippophagy^†, ichthyophagy^†.    [Eating anatomy:] (appetite) etc. 865; mouth, jaws, mandible, mazard^†, gob [Slang], chops.    drinking etc. v.; potation, draught, libation; carousal etc. (amusement) 840; drunkenness etc. 959.    food, pabulum; aliment, nourishment, nutriment; sustenance, sustentation, sustention; nurture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board; commissariat etc. (provision) 637; prey, forage, pasture, pasturage; fare, cheer; diet, dietary; regimen; belly timber, staff of life; bread, bread and cheese.    comestibles, eatables, victuals, edibles, ingesta; grub, grubstake, prog^†, meat; bread, bread stuffs; cerealia^†; cereals; viands, cates^†, delicacy, dainty, creature comforts, contents of the larder, fleshpots; festal board; ambrosia; good cheer, good living.    beef, bisquit^†, bun; cornstarch [U.S.]; cookie, cooky [U.S.]; cracker, doughnut; fatling^†; hardtack, hoecake [U.S.], hominy [U.S.]; mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti^†, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, piece de resistance [Fr.], roast and boiled; remove, entremet^†, releve [Fr.], hash, rechauffe [Fr.], stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage^†, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat^†; pie, pasty, volauvent^†; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets etc. 296; kickshaws^†; condiment etc. 393.    appetizer, hors d'oeuvre [Fr.].    main course, entree.    alligator pear, apple &c., apple slump; artichoke; ashcake^†, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole^†, avocado, banana, beche de mer [Fr.], barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli^†, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey [U.S.]; chowder, chupatty^†, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty^†, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis^†, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash [U.S.], supawn [U.S.], trepang^†, vanilla, waffle, walnut.    table, cuisine, bill of fare, menu, table d'hote [Fr.], ordinary, entree.    meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement^†, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner [Fr.], bever^†, tiffin^†, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote [Fr.], dejeuner a la fourchette [Fr.]; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout [Slang]; light refreshment; bara^†, chotahazri^†; bara khana^†.    mouthful, bolus, gobbet^†, morsel, sop, sippet^†.    drink, beverage, liquor, broth, soup; potion, dram, draught, drench, swill [Slang]; nip, sip, sup, gulp.    wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn, stingo^†, heavy wet; grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus^†, cup, bishop, wassail; gin etc. (intoxicating liquor) 959; coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates; bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer^†; Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, mate, mint julep [U.S.]; near beer, 3.   2 beer, non-alcoholic beverage.    eating house etc. 189.    [person who eats] diner; hippophage; glutton etc. 957.    ... show more

The expected or commonplace condition or situation.

A clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death.

An early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel.

synonym: ordinary bicycle.

Polish: bicykl, welocyped

heraldry Any of several conventional figures used on shields.

Polish: figura heraldyczna

Not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree.

Roget 849: simple, plain; homely, homespun; ordinary, household.    unaffected; ingenuous, sincere (artless) 703; free from affectation, free from ornament; simplex munditiis [Lat.] [Horace]; sans facon [Fr.], en deshabille [Fr.].    chaste, inornate^†, severe.    unadorned, bare, unornamented, undecked^†, ungarnished, unarranged^†, untrimmed, unvarnished.    bald, flat, dull.    ... show more

Roget 871: expecting etc. v.; unamazed, astonished at nothing; blase etc. (weary) 841; expected etc. v.; foreseen; unsurprising.    common, ordinary, normal, typical, usual etc. (habitual) 613.    ... show more

Roget 846: ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned) 849; homely; ordinary, unornamental^†, inartistic; unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely; unshapely; sightless, seemless^†; not fit to be seen; unbeauteous^†, unbeautiful; beautiless^†, semibeautiful; shapeless etc. (amorphous) 241.    misshapen, misproportioned^†; monstrous; gaunt etc. (thin) 203; dumpy etc. (short) 201; curtailed of its fair proportions; ill-made, ill-shaped, ill-proportioned; crooked etc. (distorted) 243; hard featured, hard visaged; ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored; ill-looking; unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing.    graceless, inelegant; ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff; rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety; gawky; lumping, lumpish^†; lumbering; hulky^†, hulking; unwieldy.    squalid, haggard; grim, grim faced, grim visaged; grisly, ghastly; ghost like, death like; cadaverous, grewsome^†, gruesome.    frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding; repellant, repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre; grody [Coll.], grody to the max [Coll.]; horrid, horrible; shocking etc. (painful) 830.    foul etc. (dirty) 653; dingy etc. (colorless) 429; gaudy etc. (color) 428; disfigured etc. v.; discolored.    ... show more

Roget 643: unimportant; of little account, of small account, of no account, of little importance, of no importance etc. 642; immaterial; unessential, nonessential; indifferent.    subordinate etc. (inferior) 34; mediocre etc. (average) 29; passable, fair, respectable, tolerable, commonplace; uneventful, mere, common; ordinary etc. (habitual) 613; inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant, inappreciable.    trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile etc. (foolish) 499; airy, shallow; weak etc. 160; powerless etc. 158; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble^†, inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin^†; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle^†, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water.    poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible etc. (contempt) 930; sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel^†, weedy, niggardly, scurvy, putid^†, beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse [U.S.].    not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw etc. n.; beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina [It]; vain etc. (useless) 645.    ... show more

Roget 613: habitual; accustomary^†; prescriptive, accustomed etc. v.; of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; consuetudinary^†; wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot; well-trodden, well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped; prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited; of course, admitted, understood.    conformable.    etc. 82; according to use, according to custom, according to routine; in vogue, in fashion, in, with it; fashionable etc. (genteel) 852.    wont; used to, given to, addicted to, attuned to, habituated etc. v.; in the habit of; habitue; at home in etc. (skillful) 698; seasoned; imbued with; devoted to, wedded to.    hackneyed, fixed, rooted, deep-rooted, ingrafted^†, permanent, inveterate, besetting; naturalized; ingrained etc. (intrinsic) 5.    ... show more

Roget 82: conformable to rule; regular etc. 136; according to regulation, according to rule, according to Hoyle, according to Cocker, according to Gunter; en regle [Fr.], selon les regles [Fr.], well regulated, orderly; symmetric etc. 242.    conventional etc. (customary) 613; of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; in the natural order of things; ordinary, common, habitual, usual, everyday, workaday.    in the order of the day; naturalized.    typical, normal, nominal, formal; canonical, orthodox, sound, strict, rigid, positive, uncompromising, Procrustean.    secundum artem [Lat.], shipshape, technical.    exempIe [Fr.].    illustrative, in point.    ... show more

Roget 136: frequent, many times, not rare, thickcoming^†, incessant, perpetual, continual, steady, constant, thick; uniform; repeated etc. 104; customary etc. 613 (habit) 613; regular (normal) 80; according to rule etc. (conformable) 82.    common, everyday, usual, ordinary, familiar.    old-hat, boring, well-known, trivial.    ... show more

Polish: nieoryginalny, zwykły, tuzinkowy, szary, klasyczny, pospolity, zwyczajny, szeregowy, przeciętny, typowy

Lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered:
— The ordinary (or common) man in the street.

synonym: average.

Roget 651: imperfect; not perfect etc. 650; deficient, defective; faulty, unsound, tainted; out of order, out of tune; cracked, leaky; sprung; warped etc. (distort) 243; lame; injured etc. (deteriorated) 659; peccant etc. (bad) 649; frail etc. (weak) 160; inadequate etc. (insufficient) 640; crude etc. (unprepared) 674; incomplete etc. 53; found wanting; below par; short-handed; below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement.    indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre; average etc. 29; so-so; coucicouci, milk and water; tolerable, fair, passable; pretty well, pretty good; rather good, moderately good; good; good enough, well enough, adequate; decent; not bad, not amiss; inobjectionable^†, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing.    secondary, inferior; second-rate, second-best; one-horse [U.S.].    ... show more

Polish: zwyczajny, zwykły