quotidian
/kwɔ'tidiən/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Ordinary, commonplace, or occurring daily: Describes something that is part of the regular, everyday routine and is therefore unremarkable or mundane.
- Recurring daily: In medical or formal contexts, it can describe something, like a fever, that returns every day.
Usage
- The word quotidian is used to emphasize the mundane, unexceptional nature of daily life or routine events. It often carries a slightly negative or neutral connotation, suggesting something is so common it is uninteresting.
- It is a formal or literary adjective.
Examples
- Adjective:
- She sought adventure to escape her quotidian existence.
- The novel finds beauty in the quotidian details of small-town life.
- The quotidian tasks of cooking and cleaning filled her afternoon.
Advanced Usage
- In a literary or critical context: Used to discuss themes of ordinary life in art, literature, or philosophy.
- The poet has a gift for elevating the quotidian into the profound.
- In medical/archaic usage: Referring to a fever that recurs daily.
- The patient was diagnosed with a quotidian fever.
Variants and Related Words
- Quotidianly (adverb, rare): In a daily or ordinary manner.
- Quotidianness (noun, rare): The quality of being quotidian.
Synonyms
- Everyday
- Commonplace
- Routine
- Mundane
- Ordinary
- Daily
Antonyms
- Extraordinary
- Unusual
- Exceptional
- Remarkable
- Uncommon
Related Idioms or Phrases
- The quotidian grind: A phrase emphasizing the monotonous routine of daily work or life.
- He needed a vacation from the quotidian grind.
Adjective
- 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