Meaning

Happening every day; daily..

Definitions by Sense

1. Happening every day; daily.
2. Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced, etc, every day or very commonly.
3. (medicine) Recurring every twenty-four hours or (more generally) daily (of symptoms, etc).
4. Something which is considered humdrum or dull.
5. (medicine, now rare, historical) A fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria.
6. (Anglicanism, historical) A daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy.
7. (usually with definite article) Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class.

Example Sentences

I know that the government's daily idea to solve the country's law and order problem is not meant to be taken too seriously, but every now and again I am moved to raise an eyebrow at the quotidian suggestion.

The story or the painting would serve to connect the part with the whole, the event with the myth, the quotidian with the sacred.

Tragedy demanded verse, not the quotidian prose of comedy, and verse usually supplied some form of end rhyme.

Grids are used for such quotidian items as stationery, business cards, mailing labels, hang tags, instruction manuals, etc.

They are finding the remains of ovens for smelting copper and preparing food as well as quotidian objects such as mats and storage pots.

Quotidian periodicity we find in greater or less degree in nearly all fevers, particularly in fevers associated with suppuration.

I regret that the effect of these statements is a denial of the observation of initial quotidian paroxysms following artificial inoculation.

His life took on a quotidian humdrum.

Word Forms

• more quotidian
• most quotidian
• quotidians

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