Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

infraordinary

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-fraor-di-nary
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Existing at a level below that which is considered ordinary.

Literary

Example Sentences

"There is richness in every verse, with ever now and then a bit of imagery that must inevitably stamp itself upon even an infraordinary intelligence."
"More generally, the historical idea of Little Italy weans its authority from the worlding effects of the colony's infraordinary everyday life, which appears as a fully visualized morphology."
""On the Calculation of Volume," structured as a numbered diary (we begin on Tara's 121st Nov. 18), plunges us into what Georges Perec called the infraordinary, the perplexities of the habitual and the banal: a stirring confrontation with reality that feels genuinely new. These books might brim with repetitions, but they are hardly recapitulations."

Etymology

From infra- + ordinary. Now mainly used as an allusion to the writings of French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist Georges Perec, who used the term l'infra-ordinaire in his 1973 essay "Approaches to What?" (Approches de quoi ?). First attested in 1827.

Origin

First known use: First attested in 1827

Usage

Literary

Inflected Forms

more infraordinary (comparative) most infraordinary (superlative)

Questions

What does infraordinary mean?: Existing at a level below that which is considered ordinary.
Where does infraordinary come from?: First known use: First attested in 1827.

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