unordinary

[ uhn-awr-dn-er-ee ]

adjective

1. unusual or uncommon:

   The weather was wet and cold, as expected—nothing too unordinary.

2. original, unique, or distinguished in some way; out of the ordinary:

   Find creative and unordinary handmade gifts for kids on our user-friendly website.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unordinary¹

un- ¹( def ) + ordinary ( def )

Example Sentences

It’s banal yet unordinary, as evidenced by the teens’ opposing views of the creatures; the intolerant call them “critters” while others argue for their rights.

From New York Times

In “Lookism,” a young, friendless man wakes up in a tall, handsome body; “The Remarried Empress” features a protagonist who is, well, remarried; “unOrdinary” centers on a teenager with a secret past that threatens to bring down his high school’s social hierarchy.

From New York Times

“We kept using this phrase during a lot of development: we want the player to experience the unordinary lurking within the ordinary. Those walks within Tokyo can feel like a normal day’s commute, but there can be unordinary things that we can’t see.”

From The Verge

But the candidate on the left, Sara Zemmahi, was wearing a headscarf — a decision that has become decidedly unordinary in French politics.

From Washington Post

It was so unordinary to me, and it challenged my own views about what a humane city really is, and what it means that our own cities like in New York, London, or Hong Kong, that they're void of other life forms, outside of the ones that you you are privileged enough to own and whether they should be owned at all, so I really wanted to capture that for audiences.

From Salon