Everyday

Quick meaning: Everyday is an adjective meaning Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.

Meaning

Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.

More Meanings

1. Commonplace, ordinary.
2. (literally) Present or recurring every day.
3. Misspelling of every day (compare everywhere, everyway, etc.).
4. (rare) Commonplace or ordinary during daytime.
5. (obsolete) Literally every day in succession, or every day but Sunday. [14th–19th c.]
6. (rare) The ordinary or routine day or occasion.

Example Sentences

Although it is an everyday virus, there is something about influenza that inspires awe.

We hope this becomes an ‘everyday’ book in your kitchen – or at least an ‘everyweek’ book.

By 2025, of course, Trump and Miller were back in the White House, pursuing a campaign promise to “remigrate” millions of everyday people out of America.

It’s not an everyday, or even an everyweek, event, but nowadays you can sometimes see young couples kissing goodbye at street corners and train stations.

Word Forms

• every day
• every-day
• every day's

Synonyms for everyday

Depending on context, synonyms include workaday, mundane, quotidian, routine, typical, unremarkable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include day-to-day, workaday, quotidian, routine, daily, mundane.

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