Extraordinary Managed Sleep Party Adjective Bre ɪkˈstrɔːdnri ɪkˈstrɔːrdəneri

• it's extraordinary that he managed to sleep through the party.
• what an extraordinary thing to say!
• the president took the extraordinary step of apologizing publicly for his behaviour!
• an extraordinary achievement

extraordinary

1. unexpected, surprising or strange
• synonym incredible
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/incredible
• It's extraordinary that he managed to sleep through the party.
• What an extraordinary thing to say!
• The president took the extraordinary step of apologizing publicly for his behaviour!
2. not normal or ordinary; greater or better than usual
• compare ordinary
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/ordinary
• an extraordinary achievement
• She was a truly extraordinary woman.
• They went to extraordinary lengths to explain their behaviour.
3. arranged for a special purpose and happening in addition to what normally or regularly happens
• An extraordinary meeting was held to discuss the problem.
4. employed for a special purpose in addition to the usual staff
• an envoy extraordinary

Extra Examples

• It seems absolutely extraordinary.
• What makes it so extraordinary is that the experts had all dismissed her theories as nonsense.
• He did the work with extraordinary energy and good humour.
• He used the extraordinary powers granted to him by Parliament to introduce economic reforms.
• I found an extraordinary number of errors in the document.
• It’s extraordinary that he managed to sleep through the party.
• She is a truly extraordinary woman.
• She must have been an extraordinary artist to work with.
• The club convened an extraordinary general meeting.
• The discussion was about the treatment of extraordinary items in the company accounts.
• The festival offers an extraordinary range of artistic events.
• The portrait does not do justice to her extraordinary beauty.
• The ruling Socialist Party held an extraordinary congress in July, two months before the annual congress.
• There was an extraordinary meeting of the Foreign Ministers.
• They went to extraordinary lengths to obtain a copy of the report.

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Latin extraordinarius, from extra ordinem ‘outside the normal course of events’.