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adj. Beyond what is ordinary or usual: extraordinary authority.

adj. Highly exceptional; remarkable: an extraordinary achievement.

adj. Employed or used for a special service, function, or occasion: a minister extraordinary; an extraordinary professor.

adj. Not ordinary; exceptional; unusual;

adj. Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary

adj. Exceeding the common degree, measure. or condition; hence, remarkable; uncommon; rare; wonderful.

adj. Employed or sent upon an unusual or special service.

n. That which is extraordinary; -- used especially in the plural.

Being beyond or out of the common order or rule; not of the usual, customary, or regular kind; not ordinary: as, extraordinary evils require extraordinary remedies.

Not pertaining to a regular system or sequence; exceptional; special: as, an extraordinary courier or messenger; an ambassador extraordinary; the extraordinary jurisdiction of a court; a gazette extraordinary.

In universities, relating to studies outside of the regular curriculum, or to lectures not recognized by the university as of the first rank of importance.

Exceeding the common degree or measure; hence, remarkable; uncommon; rare; wonderful: as, the extraordinary genius of Shakspere; an edifice of extraordinary grandeur.

Synonyms Unusual, singular, extra, unwonted, signal, egregious, marvelous, prodigious, strange, preposterous.

n. Anything uncommon or unusual; a thing exceeding the usual order, practice, or method.

n. An express messenger or courier.

n. Extra expense or indulgence.

n. In the British service, an allowance to troops beyond the gross pay, such as the expenses for barracks, encampments, etc.

Remarkably; exceptionally; extraordinarily.

adj. far more than usual or expected

adj. beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable

adj. (of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials

"If of fuch extraordinary* circumitances, and of hair-breadth efcapes, an account was to be taken in all the deilroyed towns of Calabria Ultra and Sicily, they would, as I faid before, compofe a large volume* I have only recorded a few of the moft extraordinary, and fuch as I had from the moft undoubt - ed authority."

immoderate    rattling    one    pyrotechnic    marvellous    bonzer    awful    wondrous    surpassing    remarkable   

common    usual    ordinary    regular    normal    everyday   

extraordinary care    extraordinary ray    envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary   

extraordinary professor    extraordinary optical transmission    extraordinary rendition   

uncommon    rare    wonderful    unusual    singular    remarkable    exemplary    portentous    phenomenal    prodigious   

Ordinary    ordinary   

unusual    wonderful    incredible    considerable    rare