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adj
Happening every day; daily.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: circadian, diurnal, daily, hemeral, nychthemeral, per diem, quotidian
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced, etc, every day or very commonly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: commonplace, everyday, mundane, normal, ordinary, average, basic, bog-standard, common, common as bums, common as dirt, common as muck, common as pig tracks, dime a dozen, frequent, general, habitual, nonrare, par for the course, pedestrian, plain, quotidian, regular, routinary, routine, ten a penny, two a penny, usual, workaday, medial, common-and-garden, common-or-garden, congruent, consistent, conventional, customary, expected, garden variety, improminent, natural, par, plain vanilla, run-of-the-mill, standard, standard issue, typical, unexceptional, unremarkable, unstrange, vulgar, wakeaday
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Recurring every twenty-four hours or (more generally) daily (of symptoms, etc).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: circadian, diurnal
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Something which is considered humdrum or dull.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: boring, dull, mundane, unsatisfying, unstimulating, banal, basic, beat, blah, commonplace, bland, cold, colourless, corny, drab, stuffy, dreich, drowsy, dull as dishwater, flat, heavy going, ho-hum, humdrum, insipid, lackluster, lame, languid, lifeless, longsome, monotonous, no fun at parties, plain, plodding, prosaic, prosy, pedantic, pedestrian, static, straightforward, snoozeworthy, soporific, tedious, uncool, wan, weaksauce, wooden, uninteresting, stodgy, vapid, vanilla
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, historical
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Qualifier: Anglicanism
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: usually, with-definite-article
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
found in the ordinary course of events- Anita Diamant
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: everyday, mundane, routine, unremarkable, workaday
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Anglo-Norman cotidian, cotidien, Middle French cotidian, cotidien, and their source, Latin cottīdiānus, quōtīdiānus (“happening every day”), from adverb cottīdiē, quōtīdiē (“every day, daily”), from an unattested adjective derived from quot (“how many”) + locative form of diēs (“day”).
Across languages
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