English Explanatory Dictionary

everyday

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.
  2. Commonplace, ordinary.
  3. Present or recurring every day.
  4. Commonplace or ordinary during daytime.
adv
  1. Misspelling of every day (compare everywhere, everyway, etc.).
noun
  1. Literally every day in succession, or every day but Sunday.
  2. The ordinary or routine day or occasion.

Pronunciation

/ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-everyday.wav

Word forms

everyday every day every-day every day's

Etymology

From Middle English everidayes, every daies, every dayes (“everyday, daily, continual, constant”, adjective, literally “every day's”), equivalent to every + day.

Synonyms

workaday mundane quotidian routine typical unremarkable average basic bog-standard common common as bums common as dirt common as muck common as pig tracks dime a dozen everyday frequent general habitual nonrare par for the course pedestrian plain regular routinary ten a penny two a penny usual medial commonplace common-and-garden common-or-garden congruent consistent conventional customary expected garden variety improminent natural normal ordinary plain vanilla run-of-the-mill standard standard issue unexceptional unstrange vulgar wakeaday circadian daily diurnal hemeral nychthemeral per diem

Derived words

everyday carry everyday life everydayness everydays everyday skill everydaywear
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