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everyday

Something routine or ordinary is called everyday. Your everyday chores, your everyday clothes, your everyday activities — these things make up everyday life.

The adjective everyday describes the common things that you generally do as part of a regular day — doing the dishes in an everyday task — but it can also have the sense of “ordinary,” like the casual everyday clothes you wear when you’re not doing anything special. Make sure you spell everyday as one word: everyday. Every day, which carries the more literal sense of something that’s done every day, is spelled as two words.

DEFINITIONS OF: everyday

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adj commonplace and ordinary

“the familiar everyday world”
Synonyms
familiar
within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange

adj found in the ordinary course of events

“a placid everyday scene”
Synonyms:
mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday
ordinary
not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree

adj appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions

everyday clothes”
Synonyms:
casual, daily
informal
not formal
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