routinary
routinary adjective: involving, or pertaining to, routine; customary.
Adjective
routinary (comparative more routinary, superlative most routinary)
- Involving, or pertaining to, routine; customary.
- routinary visitation
- routinary jobs
- Synonyms:
- regular, routine, usual, average, basic, bog-standard, common, common as bums, common as dirt, common as muck
Examples of routinary in a sentence
- routinary activities
- [H]e [the savant] retreats into his routinary existence, which is quite separate from his scientific.1870, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Works and Days”, in Society and Solitude. Twelve Chapters, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, pages...
Synonyms of routinary
- regular
- routine
- usual
- average
- basic
- bog-standard
- common
- common as bums
- common as dirt
- common as muck
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Forms of routinary
| comparative | more routinary |
|---|---|
| superlative | most routinary |
Origin of routinary
From routine + -ary.
Questions about routinary
- What does routinary mean?
- Routinary means involving, or pertaining to, routine; customary.
- How do you use routinary in a sentence?
- routinary activities
- What part of speech is routinary?
- Routinary is an adjective.
Words near routinary in the dictionary
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