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As an adjective, everyday means appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.
Meanings of everyday
5 meaningsadjective
Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
Commonplace, ordinary
Found in the ordinary course of events
“a placid everyday scene”
“it was a routine day”
“there's nothing quite like a real … train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute”
Similar: mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday
adverb
Misspelling of every day. (compare everywhere, everyway, etc.).
noun
obsoleteLiterally every day in succession, or every day but Sunday. 1
rareThe ordinary or routine day or occasion
“Putting away the tableware for everyday, a chore which is part of the everyday.”
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).