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everyday

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As an adjective, everyday means appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.

Meanings of everyday

5 meanings

adjective

  1. Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions

  2. Commonplace, ordinary

  3. 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

  1. obsoleteLiterally every day in succession, or every day but Sunday. 1

  2. 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).

adjective: found in the ordinary course of events
adjective: appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions

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