workaday

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

being part of normal life and not special
ordinaryHe took ordinary household objects and transformed them into pieces of art.
everydayComputers are now just a part of everyday life.
quotidianWe longed for the quotidian rituals, like shopping and tea, that the end of the war would bring.
day-to-dayDay-to-day operations of the team would be handled by the assistant coach.
dailyI'm looking for a good daily shampoo that won't damage my hair.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Standard and routine
average
average Joe
bog-standard
conformance
conformity
conventionalized
given
institutionalize
mainline
orthodox
regular
regularity
regularization
regularize
round
routinely
stock
the/your average bearidiom
unextraordinary
unspectacular

Examples of quotidian

quotidian
Our poetics of intermedia seem to be evolving toward finding the extraordinary in the quotidian.
From this perspective, the gendarmerie enables us to explore an understudied aspect of modern state formation: human interactions within the context of quotidian politics.
To find the items for the wordlist, they cull them from quotidian speech or invent them in moments of on-the-spot coinage.
Diseases (such as quotidian fever) that originate in phlegm are more frequent than diseases that originate in choleric humor, such as tertiary fever.
Multiple determinations of the magnitudes then become feasible, and the issue of the consistency of the various implied magnitudes becomes a quotidian consideration.
In particular, this ' culture of everyday credit ' constrained liberal ambitions to deregulate quotidian credit markets.
Related, perhaps, to presence are those ostensibly quotidian moments - when caught unawares we are taken out of ourselves.
Yet the role of women in quotidian financial transactions is clear.
This is not a memoir, but a meditation on the quotidian experience of state socialism.
Both the panegyric and the wine poem are concerned with self-transcendence, the liberation from fate and nature, from the constraint and suffering of quotidian existence.
Do they influence legal drafters to a greater degree than equivalent prescriptions typically exercise on quotidian usage?
A naturally acquired quotidian-type malaria in man transferable to monkey.
The introduction of new forms of technological mediation continually alters quotidian listening and created cultural change in many modern societies.
However, their results in these quotidian circumstances are extraordinary: invigorating yet restrained, visceral as well as intellectual.
Often quite unintentionally, this literature abounds in information on the quotidian meaning of the automobile, and on the close interrelations between humans and machines.
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