Definitions for extraordinary

extraordinary ex·traor·di·nar·y

Spelling: [ik-strawr-dn-er-ee, ek-struh-awr-]
IPA: /ɪkˈstrɔr dnˌɛr i, ˌɛk strəˈɔr-/

Extraordinary is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 24 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 945 anagrams from letters in extraordinary (aadeinorrrtxy).

Definitions for extraordinary

adjective

  1. beyond what is usual, ordinary, regular, or established:
  2. exceptional in character, amount, extent, degree, etc.; noteworthy; remarkable:
  3. (of an official, employee, etc.) outside of or additional to the ordinary staff; having a special, often temporary task or responsibility:

Origin of extraordinary

1425-75; late Middle English extraordinarie Latin extrāordinārius beyond what is ordinary. See extra-, ordinary

Examples for extraordinary

This was the most extraordinary person with whom he had ever talked.

More than this, there is about sorrow an intense, an extraordinary reality.

This is an extraordinary recording that deserves to be much better known.

The history of horrors in the North Caucasus is so extraordinary and so long as to seem almost otherworldly.

“It is extraordinary that in one week of contemporary art auctions almost $2 billion worth of art was sold,” he says.

And yet our country has redefined citizenship in some extraordinary ways since its inception.

Possibly because of the extraordinary directions which beauty culture may take.

No reason is given for this extraordinary contempt of living.

This breach is an extraordinary emotional drag on the exhausted population.

I regard her as, on the whole, the most extraordinary person of her race I have ever met.

Word Value for extraordinary
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24

Words with friends

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