quotidian
UK/kwə(ʊ)ˈtɪdɪən//kwoʊˈtɪdiən/
quotidian adjective: happening every day; daily.
Adjective
quotidian (comparative more quotidian, superlative most quotidian)
- Happening every day; daily.
- 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.2000 July 10, Marcel Berlins, “Jack plays the blame game”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 09 May 2014
- Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced, etc, every day or very commonly.
- The story or the painting would serve to connect the part with the whole, the event with the myth, the quotidian with the sacred.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 102
- Tragedy demanded verse, not the quotidian prose of comedy, and verse usually supplied some form of end rhyme.2002, Russ McDonald, edited by McEachern, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy, page 28
- Synonyms:
- commonplace, everyday, mundane, normal, ordinary, average, basic, bog-standard, common, common as bums
- Recurring every twenty-four hours or (more generally) daily (of symptoms, etc).
- Quotidian periodicity we find in greater or less degree in nearly all fevers, particularly in fevers associated with suppuration.1898, Patrick Manson, Tropical Diseases, page 104
- I regret that the effect of these statements is a denial of the observation of initial quotidian paroxysms following artificial inoculation.1941, American Journal of Tropical Medicine, volume XXI
- Something which is considered humdrum or dull.
- His life took on a quotidian humdrum.2004, Larry Haeg, In Gatsby's Shadow: The Story of Charles Macomb Flandrau
- Their careers, although often high paying, prestigious and meaningful (at least to an outsider looking in), had become boring, quotidian, dull, unstimulating, and repetitive.2008, Ingrid E. Cummings, The Vigorous Mind
- Synonyms:
- boring, dull, mundane, unsatisfying, unstimulating, banal, basic, mindless, beat, blah
Noun
quotidian (plural quotidians)
- A fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria.
- If I could meet that Fancie-monger, I would giue him some good counsel, for he seemes to haue the Quotidian of Loue vpon him.1623, William Shakespeare, As You Like It
- I myself was, about two years since, strangely cured of a violent quotidian, which all the wonted method of physick had not so much abated, by applying to my wrists a mixture of two handfuls of bay-salt, two handfuls of the freshest English hops, and a quarter of a pound of blue currants […]1671, Robnert Boyle, Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy, Part II
- A daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy.
- Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class.
- More than opposable thumbs and the invention of the flinthead axe, it was our ability to transcend the quotidian by weaving tales of awe and wonder that set us apart from the beasts.2005 September 21, Lucy Mangan, “Has Lost lost the plot?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2023
- Zamenhof realized early on that one of the best ways of bringing Esperanto to life is through translated literature – through rendering in Esperanto events and ideas, conversations and encounters, that have yet to occur in real life in that language. Literary creation has always broadened our...2008, Humphrey Tonkin, “Preface”, in Geoffrey Sutton, Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto 1887–2007, Mondial, →ISBN, page 2
quotidian meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
quotidian in Tamil
- தினசரி, தினசரி நிகழும், அன்றாட, வழக்கமான, சாதாரண
quotidian in Urdu
- quotidian
- سادھارن sādhāran
quotidian in Bengali
- দৈনন্দিন, সাধারণ
quotidian in Malayalam
- everyday, daily, day-to-day
- ദെെനന്ദിന, ദിവസേനയുള്ള, ദിവസം തോറും ഉള്ള, പ്രതിദിനം, അന്നന്നു സംഭവിക്കുന്ന, ദിനംപ്രതി
- average, ordinary, run-of-the-mill
- ശരാശരിയായ, ഇടത്തരമായ, ഒഴുക്കനായ, സാധാരണ, സാധാരണ തരത്തിലുള്ള, സാമാന്യമായ
More languagesFewer languages
- quotidian in Arabic
- يَوْمِيّ yawmiyy, مُعْتَاد muʕtād
- quotidian in Vietnamese
- tầm thường
Examples of quotidian in a sentence
- Grids are used for such quotidian items as stationery, business cards, mailing labels, hang tags, instruction manuals, etc.2010, Steven Heller, Eddie S Glaude, Becoming a Graphic Designer:
- They are finding the remains of ovens for smelting copper and preparing food as well as quotidian objects such as mats and storage pots.2015, Alexander Stille, “The World’s Oldest Papyrus and What It Can Tell Us About the Great Pyramids”, in Smithsonian Magazine, volume...
- Literary creation has always broadened our experience beyond the quotidian; it can also broaden a language.2008, Humphrey Tonkin, “Preface”, in Geoffrey Sutton, Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto 1887–2007, Mondial...
- She does the same thing as any parent worth their salt, and gets rambunctious youngsters engaged in daily drudgeries by refashioning the quotidian as adventure.2018 December 12, Charles Bramesco, “A Spoonful of Nostalgia Helps the Calculated Mary Poppins Returns Go Down”, in The A.V. Club, archived...
Synonyms of quotidian
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- 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
- regular
- routinary
- routine
- ten a penny
- two a penny
- usual
- workaday
- medial
- common-and-garden
- common-or-garden
- congruent
- consistent
- conventional
Forms of quotidian
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more quotidian |
| superlative | most quotidian |
| Noun | |
| plural | quotidians |
Origin of quotidian
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”).
Words formed from quotidian
Words that rhyme with quotidian
- meridian
- Gideon
- Eridian
- euclidean
- Lydian
- nullifidian
- obsidian
- viridian
- aphidian
- ascidian
- enchiridion
- ophidian
2 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about quotidian
- What does quotidian mean?
- Quotidian means happening every day; daily.
- What is quotidian in Tamil?
- Quotidian in Tamil is தினசரி, தினசரி நிகழும், அன்றாட. See Quotidian meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use quotidian in a sentence?
- Grids are used for such quotidian items as stationery, business cards, mailing labels, hang tags, instruction manuals, etc.
- What part of speech is quotidian?
- Quotidian can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce quotidian?
- Quotidian is pronounced /kwə(ʊ)ˈtɪdɪən/ (UK).
Words near quotidian in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: quotidian (page history and authors); quotidian (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); سادھارن (Urdu) (page history and authors); quotidian (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quotidian (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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