Ordinary & Ordinally
Since I often confuse ordinary with ordinally, I'd like to take a note of their differences.
| Word | Part of speech | Definition | Synonyms |
|---|---|---|---|
| ordinary | adjective | ・of no special quality or interest ・plain or undistinguished (ref: Dictionary.com) | natural, normal, traditional, typical, etc. (ref: Thesaurus.com) |
| ordinally | adverb | ・In an ordinal manner. (ref: Wiktionary.org) ・adverb form of ordinal (ref: Dictionary.com) | (couldn't find ones) |
| ordinal | adjective | ・of or relating to order, rank, or position in a series. (ref: Dictionary.com) | figure, statistic, sum, total, etc. (ref: Thesaurus.com) |
It seems that ordinally isn't used that often (or ordinary). Instead, ordinal seems to be used as ordinal numbers, ordinal data, or statistics kind of context.
In that case, I won't use "ordinally" or "ordinal" in my ordinary life.