Quotidian

Quick meaning: Quotidian is an adjective meaning Happening every day; daily.

Meaning

Happening every day; daily.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

His life took on a quotidian humdrum.

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.

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

Word Forms

• quotidians

Synonyms for quotidian

Depending on context, synonyms include circadian, diurnal, daily, hemeral, nychthemeral, commonplace.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include everyday, workaday, routine, mundane, ordinary, unremarkable.

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