unextraordinary

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

good or important because of unusual qualities
specialAre you doing anything special for your birthday?
exceptionalTheir standard of acting was very high but there was one exceptional performance.
outstandingHe accepted an award for outstanding achievement in baseball.
extraordinaryHer capacity to remember things is extraordinary.
deluxeThe salesman tried to sell us the deluxe model.
 extraordinary meetingmainly UK
a special meeting that happens between regular meetings: 特别会议
He presided over an extraordinary meeting of the country's leading clergy.
We witnessed the extraordinary sight of an old lady climbing a tree to rescue her cat.
The rain forest is home to many extraordinary creatures.
She has an extraordinary memory and can remember details and names that I've long forgotten.
Whatever is that extraordinary object in the sky?
Eastern Europe was completely transformed by the extraordinary events of 1989 and 1990.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unique and unusual
accidental
alt-
alternative
atypically
be marked out as somethingidiom
flip
flip the scriptidiom
guerrilla
home brew
incongruous
peerless
personalization
personalized
quaintly
quaintness
unforgettably
unique
uniquely
unmatchable
unmatched

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Strange, suspicious and unnatural

extraordinary | American Dictionary

extraordinary
adjective
us/ɪkˈstrɔr·dənˌer·i/
very unusual and special; different in type or greater in degree than the usual or ordinary:
Being chairman gave him an extraordinary sense of power.
She was an extraordinary woman, and no one will ever forget her.

extraordinarily

adverbus/ɪkˌstrɔr·dənˈer·ə·li/

extraordinary | Business English

extraordinary
adjective
uk /ɪkˈstrɔːdənəri/us
very unusual, special, or unexpected:
extraordinary accomplishment/achievement/effortIt's an extraordinary accomplishment to be able to run a successful project for 40 years.
After a rough start, this year is shaping up to be a year of extraordinary growth for the company.
[ before noun ] ACCOUNTING
used to describe a large cost or loss that does not happen regularly:
The oil spill was handled as an extraordinary expense - a non-recurring, one-time event.
[ before noun ]
used to describe something that does not happen regularly but that is arranged for a special purpose:
They convened an extraordinary meeting of shareholders to discuss the issue.

Examples of extraordinary

extraordinary
Next we gain a valuable insight into the ways that children adapt and respond to the challenges they face in ordinary and extraordinary circumstances.
Protest movements arise only under extraordinary circumstances: under periods of profound social dislocation followed by changes in social consciousness and behavior.
He communicated ideas with extraordinary clarity and simplicity.
The extraordinary stories that he invents or that he reports when he describes cities and regions are part of this tendency to exaggerate.
In addition, they all have accumulated moderate resistances to an extraordinary collection of physical and chemical antimicrobial agents.
The consequences of television's extraordinary reach as a mass medium for classical music have been different.
He argues that the ministry has achieved some extraordinary accomplishments that have gone unheralded amid the policy breakdown.
In many respects it is an extraordinary article, in particular for the re-emergence of a racialised discourse within the rhetoric of class solidarity.
The results demonstrated the extraordinary popularity of the student proposal.
Also, there are numerous private firms with market power earning extraordinary profits in some of their markets that can be used as a cross-subsidy source.
A completely new possibility of organising sounds appears with tape editing, which permits tape to be spliced and arranged with an extraordinary new precision.
As a result, it acquires an extraordinary sensitivity to external influences, in addition to the inner sensitivity based on longrange links between the particles.
To an extraordinary extent, they have used local volunteers, in tandem with public professionals, to deliver social services.
Finally, the extraordinary number of women candidates at all levels was expected to affect the electorate's thinking and behaviour on the basis of gender.
An additional advantage concerns the distinction between true and false extraordinary counterpossibles.
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