Everyday

Definition: Everyday

Everyday

Adjective

1. Found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant.

2. Suited for everyday use; "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes".

3. Commonplace and ordinary; "the familiar everyday world".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "everyday" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Synonyms: Everyday

Conformity

Conventional; (customary); of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; in the natural order of things; ordinary, common, habitual, usual, everyday, workaday.

Frequency

Common, everyday, usual, ordinary, familiar.

Impulse

Adjective: habitual; accustomary; prescriptive, accustomed; Verb: of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; consuetudinary; wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot; well-trodden, well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped; prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited; of course, admitted, understood.

Crosswords: Everyday

Tired of this war, tired of fighting I'm tired of the ship, being cold, eating the same goddamn goop everyday (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

Stars wheeled overhead and everyday was as long as a life-age of the earth (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

A sense of the miraculous in everyday life (The Mask of Zorro; writing credit: Johnston McCulley; Ted Elliott)

I've been on a diet everyday since I was nineteen, which basically means I've been hungry for a decade (Notting Hill; writing credit: Richard Curtis)

Great. Now say that everyday you had an apple (Election; writing credit: Alexander Payne)

Gonna live my life everyday (Everyday; performing artist: Bon Jovi)

Can’t get enough of this everyday love (This Everyday Love; performing artist: Rascal Flatts)

I don't wanna be a worker everyday (We Live; performing artist: Bosson)

But it feels alright everyday and every night ((You Drive Me) Crazy - Stop Remix; performing artist: Britney Spears)

I'm the warheart, I'm dying to win the battle I live everyday (Warheart; performing artist: Children)

Show a little bit of your anger everyday instead of showing a lot of it on one day. (references; author: unknown)

Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive. (references; author: unknown)

What common everyday occurrence is composed of 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen, and 9% dioxide? A fart. (references; author: unknown)

Everyday Courtesy (1948)

Scenes from Everyday Life (1995)

Everyday Heroes (1990)

Memoirs of an Everyday War (1986)

Everyday Things in Early Canada: Part I (1985)

Everyday Of The Week (performing artist: Jade)

This Everyday Love (performing artist: Rascal Flatts)

Everyday Is A Winding Road (performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

Everyday People (performing artist: Sly and the Family Stone)

EVERYDAY I HAVE TO CRY  (performing artist: Steve Alaimo )

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Everyday Biscuits (reference)

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Books

• MindControlMarketing.com: How Everyday People are Using Forbidden Mind Control Psychology and Ruthless Military Tactics to Make Millions Online (reference)

• Creative Correction: Extraordinary Ideas for Everyday Discipline (Focus on the Family Book) (reference)

• The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud (Psychopathology of Everyday Life, the Interpretation of Dreams, and Three Contributions To the Theory of Sex) (reference)

• My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for Everyday (reference)

• Easy Spanish Phrase Book: Over 770 Basic Phrases for Everyday Use (reference)

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Periodicals

• Everyday Tlc (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Housefly: An Everyday Monster (reference)

• Table Manners for Everyday Use (reference)

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Music

• Everyday (reference)

• Psychopathology of Everyday Life (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• LASER PUBLISHING Everyday Chinese (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Calphalon Commercial Hard-Anodized 12-Inch Everyday Pan with Cover (reference)

• Cuisinart Everyday Stainless Double Boiler Insert (reference)

• Cuisinart 3-1/2-Quart Everyday Stainless Steel Saute Pan with Lid and Helper Handle (reference)

• Cuisinart 5-Piece Everyday Stainless Steel Cookware Starter Set (reference)

• Cuisinart 2-Quart Everyday Stainless Steel Windsor Pan with Lid (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Giving herself insulin injections is part of everyday life ... / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by P. Larsen..

Finally, the ordered [i.e. order] as restablished [i.e. reestablished] to that rebelious [sic] regin [i.e. region], and everyday life began again / Ardeshir Mohassess. Credit: Library of Congress.

Linda Darnell in her dressing room, wearing everyday cotton mesh stockings as a part of her rehearsal costume. Credit: Library of Congress.

Old barn, cow and buggy, near Lafayette, Louisiana. This buggy is in everyday use, and it is not unusual to see several buggies on the streets in town. Credit: Library of Congress.

Everyday from twenty to thirty cars moving out from the Dakotas pass the Montana Highway Department's port of entry. Montana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Everyday 69 people are killed with guns : 63 are killed with handguns, 6 are killed with rifles and shotguns. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

However, loud noise does not have to be an everyday happening to cause damage. (references)

You can quickly return to many everyday activities, but your vision may be blurry. (references)

Excessively loud everyday noises, both at home and at work, can pose a risk to a person's hearing. (references)

Business

Apart from contents, electronic book player itself weighed as much as 800g, too heavy for everyday carrying. (references)

Everyday, an estimated 1.4 million cubic meters of wastewater is dumped in the Chao Phraya River, Bangkok’s main water source. (references)

Trademark infringement and counterfeiting are everyday facts of life, which remain to challenge brand holders and trademark owners in Russia. (references)

Children

Austria

A 1997 amendment to the law explicitly requires the State to provide for equal rights for the disabled "in all areas of everyday life." The law requires all private enterprises and state and federal government offices to employ one person with disabilities for every 25 to 40 employees, depending on the type of work. (references)

Economic History

Haiti

Poultry is also an important part in the everyday Haitian meal. (references)

Pakistan

Many consumer retail stores stock general merchandise for everyday use. (references)

Minorities

Czech Republic

Roma also face discrimination in housing and other areas of everyday life. (references)

Turkmenistan

While Russian remained common in commerce and everyday life, during the year, the Government has intensified its campaign to conduct official business solely in Turkmen. (references)

Political Economy

Austria

The FPO has attracted protest voters who no longer desire association with the other two major parties that have penetrated many aspects of everyday life in Austria. (references)

Travel

Portugal

In terms of everyday business the Portuguese are correct and civil. (references)

Mauritius

The official language is English but French and Creole are used in everyday life. (references)

Women

Uzbekistan

Although the law prohibits discrimination against women, traditional, cultural, and religious practices limit their role in everyday society. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "everyday": dressed in everyday clothes ♦ everyday clothes ♦ everyday events ♦ everyday food ♦ everyday life ♦ for everyday wear ♦ in everyday life. Additional references.

Beginning with "everyday": everyday-the.

Albanian

për ditë jave, i zakonshëm (accustomed, common, common or garden, commonplace, consuetudinary, current, customary, daily, day to day, familiar, general, habitual, homely, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, ready made, regular, routine, second best, standard, usual, vulgar, wonted, workaday), i rëndomtë (banal, base, coarse, common, commonplace, copybook, corny, habitual, hackneyed, homely, mundane, ordinary, plain, platitudinous, prose, prosy, second rate, substandard, trite, vulgar), i përditshëm (daily, day to day, diurnal, ferial, homely, mundane, ordinary, quotidian), i ditëpërditshëm. (various references)

Arabic 

‏يوميا (common place, daily, once a day), ‏كل يوم (daily), ‏مبتذل (banal, common, commonplace, conventional, corny, fade, fading, hack, hackneyed, outworn, overused, pedestrian, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, prose, routine, slipshod, stale, stereotyped, tacky, threadbare, tired, trite, trivial, vapid, vulgar, well worn, workaday, worn out). (various references)

Breton

bemdez. (various references)

Bulgarian 

разговорен (colloquial, conversational), всекидневен (commonplace, daily, day to day, informal, knockabout, workaday), обикновен (accustomed, average, common, commonplace, familiar, frequent, homely, humdrum, low, matter of fact, mere, moderate, mundane, ordinary, plain, quiet, regular, routine, run of the mill, simple, trite, trivial, unaffected, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual, wonted), ежедневен (daily, diurnal, quotidian), банален (banal, commonplace, flatulent, hack, hackneyed, namby-pamby, pedestrian, platitudinous, quotidian, tired, trite, trivial, twice-told, vapid, well worn, worn out), делничен (ferial, pedestrian, unromantic, weekday, workaday). (various references)

Chinese 

每天 (every day). (various references)

Czech

všední (commonplace, corny, flat, ordinary, shallow, trite, trivial), tuctový (homely), prozaický (down to earth, prosaic, prosy, unimaginative), každodenní (casual, daily, diurnal, quotidian, weekly, workaday). (various references)

Danish

vulgær (common, vulgar). (various references)

Dutch

vulgair (vulgar), ordinair (common, vulgar), grof (coarse, crude, raw, rough). (various references)

Esperanto

vulgara (common, vulgar). (various references)

Faeroese

vanligur (common, ordinary, usual, vulgar), óvandaligur (common, vulgar). (various references)

Finnish

arkipäiväinen (commonplace, humdrum), arkinen (commonplace), arki (week-day). (various references)

French

vulgaire, tous les jours, quotidien, de tous les jours, courant. (various references)

German

täglich (daily, diurnal, quotidian), alltäglich (ordinary, daily, humdrum, trivial). (various references)

Greek 

κάθε μέρα, καθημερινόσ (daily, workaday), καθ' έκαστην. (various references)

Hebrew 

יום יומי (daily, ordinary, routine, workaday), שגרתי (conventional, customary, hackneyed, routine, stock, trite). (various references)

Hungarian

mindennapi (quotidian). (various references)

Indonesian

setiap hari. (various references)

Italian

volgare (common, vulgar), usuale (usual, accustomed, customary, wonted), quotidiano (daily, quotidian), ogni giorno (daily), giornaliero (daily), comune (common, commune, joint). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

日常　 (ordinary, regular, usual), 日常 (ordinary, regular, usual), 年中 (always, whole year). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ねんじゅう (always, whole year), にちじょう (ordinary, regular, usual). (various references)

Korean 

매일 (Daily). (various references)

Manx

laaoil (daily, diurnal, workaday). (various references)

Norwegian

hverdagslig. (various references)

Pig Latin

everydayay.(various references)

Portuguese

vulgar (common, commonplace, trite, vulgar), diário (daily, journal). (various references)

Romanian

zilnic (daily), de fiecare zi (diurnal, workaday), cotidian (daily, diurnal, everyday's, ordinary), comun (banal, base, common, communal, current, frequent, general, joint, low, mediocre, mutual, ordinary, rife, universal, usual, vulgar), banal (banal, cheap, commonplace, daily, dusty, hackneyed, humdrum, indifferent, indistinctive, insipid, mediocre, puerile, small, threadbare, trite, trivial, unimaginative). (various references)

Russian 

каждодневный (daily), обычный (consuetudinary, habitual, ordinary), обиходный, житейский (worldly), ежедневный (quotidian), повседневный (workaday). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svakodnevni (daily, day to day, mundane, ordinary, quotidian), svakidašnji (prosaic, vernacular, workaday). (various references)

Spanish

todos los días, prosaico (earthbound, matter of fact, ordinary, pedestrian, prosaic, prose, prosy, workaday), diario (daily, diary, newspaper), de cada tiempo, de cada temporada, de cada día (daily, workaday). (various references)

Swedish

vardags, alldaglig (commonplace, workaday). (various references)

Turkish

vasat (fair, fair average, indifferent, mediocre, par, undistinguished), orta halli (middle class, middling, tolerable, undistinguished), olağan (common, commonplace, mediocre, mundane, ordinary, regular, run-off-the-mill, usual), her günkü (day to day, diurnal, of every day, per diem, quotidian, ready, routine, usual), her gün (daily), günlük (casually, daily, day to day, daybook, diary, diurnal, frankincense, fresh, journal, of every day, per diem, quotidian, workaday), gündelik (casual, casually, daily, daily fee, day-to-day money, leisure, per diem, quotidian, ready, workaday), basit (basic, countrified, crude, easy, elemental, elementary, facile, foolproof, frugal, frugally, homely, humble, jejune, potty, primitive, simple, simplex, simplificative, simplistic, small, straightforward, undemanding, vulgar), adi (abject, base, camp, campy, cheap jack, chintzy, coarse, coarse grained, common, common as dirt, commonplace, contemptible, dastardly, despicable, groveling, grovelling, gutter, hackneyed, jerkwater, little, low, low class, mean, measly, no class, one horse, ordinary, ornery, picayune, picayunish, poky, rubbishy, shoddy, slavish, sleazy, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, vile, vulgar, wormy, yellow dog), adí (common, ordinary, usual, vulgar). (various references)

Ukrainian

щоденний (daily, diurnal, quotidian, service), звичайний (accustomed, average, common, common or garden, consuetudinary, conventional, customary, frequent, homely, mediocre, natural, normal, ordinary, positive, regulation, rife, run of the mill, uneventful, unexceptional, usual), буденний (prosy, workaday), повсякденний (bread and butter, daily, day to day, for everyday wear, workaday). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xảy ra hằng ngày tầm thường, thông thường (common, commonly, customary, normal, normally, ordinary, regulation, usual, vulgar, wonted), hằng ngày (day-to-day), dùng hằng ngày thường. (various references)

cotidiano, cotidianum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "everyday": everydayness, everydaynesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Everyday" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: everday. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: evader, reaved.

-3 letters: deary, deave, deray, drave, eared, eaved, evade, every, raved, rayed, ready, reave, redye, reedy, veery.

-4 letters: aery, aver, dare, davy, dear, deer, dere, deva, dray, dree, dyer, eave, eery, ever, eyed, eyer, eyra, eyre, eyry, rave, read, rede, reed, vary, veer, vera, very, yard, yare, year.

-5 letters: are, ave, aye, day.

+4 letters: everydayness.