EVERYDAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does everyday mean? 

• EVERYDAY (adjective)
  The adjective EVERYDAY has 3 senses:

1. found in the ordinary course of events

2. appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions

3. commonplace and ordinary

  Familiarity information: EVERYDAY used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVERYDAY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Found in the ordinary course of events

Synonyms:

everyday; mundane; quotidian; routine; unremarkable; workaday

Context example:

there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute

Similar:

ordinary (not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree)

Derivation:

everydayness (ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions

Synonyms:

casual; daily; everyday

Context example:

everyday clothes

Similar:

informal (not formal)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Commonplace and ordinary

Context example:

the familiar everyday world

Similar:

familiar (within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange)

Derivation:

everydayness (ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace)

 Context examples 

Over the last two decades, nanotechnology has improved many everyday products, from microelectronics to sunscreens.

(Nanoparticles may have bigger impact on the environment than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) Have you had pain other than these everyday kinds of pain during the last week?

(BPI - Pain Other than Everyday Kinds, NCI Thesaurus)

Brief Pain Inventory Short Form (BPI Short Form) Have you had pain other than these everyday kinds of pain today?

(BPI Short Form - Pain Other Than Everyday Kinds, NCI Thesaurus)

Assessment is made in the context of an everyday event.

(California Verbal Learning Test, Children's Version, NCI Thesaurus)

But for people with anxiety disorders, fear and uncertainty interfere with everyday activities.

(Anxiety molecules affect male and female mice differently, NIH)

In an approach known as metabolomics, the scientists used mass spectrometry to sort through hundreds of blood-based chemicals, called metabolites, produced during the body’s everyday activities.

(Study Points to Possible Blood Test For Memory Decline, Alzheimer’s, NIH)

In particular, aggressive humour is mainly associated with the expression of anger towards others and a greater propensity to experience anger in everyday life.

(Self-defeating humour promotes psychological well-being, University of Granada)

People often engage in reminiscing about past events during their everyday lives, sometimes as a strategy for lifting their mood when they feel sad.

(Recalling happy memories during adolescence can reduce risk of depression, University of Cambridge)

Information about your everyday experiences, such as where and when an event occurred, are encoded into your memory through a seahorse-shaped brain region called the hippocampus.

(How novelty boosts memory retention, NIH)

But if they don't need to change their everyday behavior, and can instead try to change their state of mind by becoming more mindful, they can probably see this beneficial effect.

(Mindful Movement May Help Lower Stress, Anxiety, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)