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out of the ordinary

out of the ordinary prepositional phrase: extraordinary, unusual, or exceptional, especially for the better.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Extraordinary, unusual, or exceptional, especially for the better.
    • The food was expensive, and nothing out of the ordinary.
    • The unusual rolling stock, the fare collection methods, and the exchange of train staffs make it quite clear that here is something out of the ordinary run of suburban electric lines.1951 November, R. K. Kirkland, “The Wimbledon and West Croydon Line of the Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 726

out of the ordinary meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

out of the ordinary in Bengali

অসাধারণ, অস্বাভাবিক, ব্যতিক্রমী

out of the ordinary in Malayalam

exceptional, unusual, remarkable
അന്യസാധാരണ, അനിതര, അസാധാരണ, അസാമാന്യമായ, അന്യസദൃശ്യമായ, പ്രത്യേകമായ

Questions about out of the ordinary

What does out of the ordinary mean?
Out of the ordinary means extraordinary, unusual, or exceptional, especially for the better.
What is out of the ordinary in Bengali?
Out of the ordinary in Bengali is অসাধারণ, অস্বাভাবিক, ব্যতিক্রমী. See Out of the ordinary meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is out of the ordinary?
Out of the ordinary is a prepositional phrase.

Words near out of the ordinary in the dictionary

  1. out of the goodness of one's heart
  2. out of the loop
  3. out of the money
  4. out of the mouths of babes
  5. out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
  6. out of the ordinary
  7. out of the picture
  8. out of the question
  9. out of the running
  10. out of the side of one's mouth
  11. out of the starting gate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: out of the ordinary (page history and authors); out of the ordinary (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); out of the ordinary (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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