Ordinary

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Typical

Synonyms Usual, standard, stock, customary, accustomed, wonted, regular, day-to-day, established, set, traditional, prevailing, normal, typical, common, habitual, expected, everyday, routine, daily, settled, fixed, and quotidian.

Normal

Synonyms Average, run-of-the-mill, typical, common, mainstream, unexceptional, modest, simple, homespun, undistinguished, characterless, commonplace, mundane, pedestrian, quotidian, uneventful, boring, bland, hackneyed, mediocre, indifferent, OK, bog-standard, plain vanilla, a dime a dozen, not up to much, hacky, ornery, normal, standard, middle-of-the-road, conventional, unremarkable, unpretentious, plain, homely, workaday, nondescript, colourless, humdrum, unmemorable, prosaic, uninteresting, dull, uninspiring, suburban, stale, middling, garden-variety, so-so, vanilla, nothing to write home about, no great shakes, corny, and common or garden.

Example Sentences

He led an ordinary life in town.

The meal was surprisingly ordinary and bland.

She prefers ordinary moments over extravagant ones.

Ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things.