Natural vs Ordinary - What's the difference?
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That exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem.
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Without artificial additives.
As expected; reasonable.
* Addison
(music) Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted .
(music) Produced by natural organs, such as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.
(music) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.
Without, or prior to, modification or adjustment.
* Macaulay
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5 Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Connected by the ties of consanguinity.
* J. H. Newman
(obsolete) Born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard.
(of sexual intercourse) Without a condom.
* 1615 , Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia , Richmond 1957, page 3:
(music) A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental, or the symbol used to indicate such a note.
One with an innate talent at or for something.
An almost white colour, with tints of grey, yellow or brown; originally that of natural fabric.
(archaic) One with a simple mind; a fool or idiot.
* 1597 , , by Shakespeare, Act 2 Scene 4
One's natural life.
* 1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, page 155:
*:‘Sergeant-Major Robinson came in in the middle of it, and you've never seen a man look more surprised in your natural .’
Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases .
Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.
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* (Joseph Addison), 1741, The Works of the Late Honourable Joseph Addison, E?q. , Volume 3,
*:Method is not le?s requi?ite in ordinary conver?ation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make him?elf under?tood.
Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory .
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*, "Samuel Johnson," in 1871, Lady Trevelyan (Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan, editor), The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete , Volume 7,
*:An ordinary' lad would have acquired little or no useful knowledge in such a way: but much that was dull to ' ordinary lads was interesting to Samuel.
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*:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
Bad or undesirable.
*1983 September 20, Bruce Stannard, Australia II Joins Our Greats'', ''The Age'', republished 2003, David Headon (editor), ''The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection ,
*:It was, in some ways a sad, almost pathetic sight to see this great American boat which had fought so hard throughout the cup summer, now looking very ordinary indeed.
*1961', Joanna White, quoted in '''2005 , A. James Hammerton, Alistair Thomson, ''Ten Pound Poms: Australia?s Invisible Migrants ,
*:For myself, I loved adventure and travelling. I?d already done quite a bit of travelling in Europe and — couldn?t get enough of it and whilst my marriage, at that stage, was very happy, he was very entrenched as a Londoner, Cockney, absolutely Cockney Londoner, and I could see that our future was pretty ordinary and so my hidden agenda I suppose was to drag him out to Australia and hope that both our lifestyles would improve and there would be new opportunities.
*2007 , Chris Viner-Smith, Australia?s Forgotten Frontier: The Unsung Police Who Held Our PNG Front Line ,
*:Everyone started making suggestions as to what to do but they were all pretty ordinary ideas such as lighting a fire and hope someone would see the smoke and come to rescue us and so on.
*2010 , Mal Bryce, Australia's First Online Community Ipswich Queensland ,
*:Since the general public gained access to the Internet in 1993-4, firstly by narrowband dial-up access and since 1998 by very ordinary , so-called broadband speeds (generally less than 1 Mbps), a social and cultural revolution has been underway.
(obsolete) A devotional manual.
(Christianity) A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of service, especially of Mass.
A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.
(obsolete) A set portion of food, later as available for a fixed price at an inn or other eating establishment.
A place where such meals are served; a public tavern, inn.
*, II.2.4, 1847,
* 1712 , (Jonathan Swift), A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue'', ''The Works of Jonathan Swift , Volume 2,
* (rfdate) Bancroft, 1899, Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl (editors), The Universal Anthology ,
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p.1,
(heraldry) One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess.
An ordinary thing or person; the mass; the common run.
* 1622 , (William Shakespeare), As You Like It'', Act 3, Scene 5, 1800, ''The Plays of William Shakspeare , Volume 8,
* (Francis Bacon), quoted in 1773, (Samuel Johnson), A Dictionnary of the English Language ,
* (rfdate) Walter Scott
(historical) A penny-farthing bicycle.
Ordinary is a synonym of natural.
In obsolete terms the difference between natural and ordinary
is that natural is born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard while ordinary is a set portion of food, later as available for a fixed price at an inn or other eating establishment.As adjectives the difference between natural and ordinary
is that natural is that exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem while ordinary is having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.As nouns the difference between natural and ordinary
is that natural is a native inhabitant of a place, country etc while ordinary is a devotional manual.natural
English
(wikipedia natural)Alternative forms
* naturall (obsolete)Adjective
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- His prison sentence was the natural consequence of a life of crime.
- What can be more natural than the circumstances in the behaviour of those women who had lost their husbands on this fatal day?
- the natural motion of a gravitating body
- with strong natural sense, and rare force of will
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- To leave his wife, to leave his babes, / He wants the natural touch.
- natural friends
- a natural child
Synonyms
* (as expected) inevitable, necessary, reasonable * (without a condom)Antonyms
* (exists in an ecosystem) aberrant, abnormal, artificial * (as expected) aberrant, abnormal, freak, unexpected, unreasonableDerived terms
* naturally * naturalness * natural advantages * natural aging * natural breast * natural business year * natural child * natural childbirth * natural daughter * natural death * natural disaster * natural fiber * natural food * natural frequency * natural gas * natural historian * natural history * natural killer cell * natural language * natural language processing * natural law * natural light * natural logarithm * natural medicine * natural monopoly * natural number * natural philosophy * natural religion * natural resources * natural scale * natural science * natural selection * natural slope * natural son * natural theology * natural virtue * natural wastage * natural world * natural-born * naturalise/naturalize * naturalist * unnaturalNoun
(en noun)- I coniecture and assure my selfe that yee cannot be ignorant by what meanes this peace hath bin thus happily both for our proceedings and the welfare of the Naturals concluded [...].
- He's a natural on the saxophone.
- (Mercutio) [...] this drivelling love is like a great natural , / that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.
See also
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Adjective
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Antonyms
* (having no special characteristics) extraordinary, specialDerived terms
* ordinarily, ordinariness * ordinary differential equation, ordinary number, ordinary seamanNoun
(ordinaries)page 315,
- We are most part too inquisitive and apt to hearken after news, which Cæsar, in his Commentaries, observes of the old Gauls, they would be inquiring of every carrier and passenger what they had heard or seen, what news abroad?as at an ordinary with us, bakehouse, or barber's shop.
page 288,
- Thus furnished, they come up to town, reckon all their errors for accomplishments, borrow the newest set of phrases ; and if they take a pen into their hands, all the odd words they have picked up in a coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary , are produced as flowers of style.
page 320,
- He enjoyed a perpetual port duty of fourteen pence a ton, on vessels not owned in the province, yielding not far from five thousand dollars a year; and he exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and peddlers and to ordinaries .
- it hath been usual with the honest and well-meaning host to provide a bill of fare which all persons may peruse at their first entrance into the house; and having thence acquainted themselves with the entertainment which they may expect, may either stay and regale with what is provided for them, or may depart to some other ordinary better accommodated to their taste.
page 287,
- I ?ee no more in you than in the ordinary / Of nature's ?alework.
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- Spain had no other wars save those which were grown into an ordinary ; now they have coupled therewith the extraordinary of the Valtoline and Palatinate.
- water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plough socks, and other ordinaries