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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.
I am the formal leader of the project but the everyday management is in the hands of my assistant.我是这个项目名义上的领导，但日常管理都由我的助理负责。
Comedy is so often based in the minutiae of everyday life.
She has maintained an Olympian detachment from the everyday business of the office.
In his poems everyday reality is invested with a sense of wonder and delight.在他的诗歌里，现实生活被赋予了一种奇妙和快乐的感觉。
Street-fights are an everyday occurrence in this area of the city.在该市的这一地区，街头斗殴每天都会发生。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Plain and ordinary
as it comesidiom
austere
austerely
austerity
average Joe
homey
humble
humdrum
middle-of-the-road
mundane
sparely
spartan
stale
starkly
starkness
unostentatious
unostentatiously
unpainted
unremarkable
unremarkably

everyday | American Dictionary

everyday
adjective
us/ˈev·riˌdeɪ/
ordinary, typical, or usual:
The movie is about the everyday lives of working mothers.

Examples of everyday

everyday
Problems, then, are raised about the ecological validity of this constraint and the role it might play in the perception of ordinary, everyday motion.
Laboratory models, however, are necessarily diminished representations of everyday-life processes.
A mention of graphology in its everyday sense (394) cross-refers inexplicably to where a different, technical sense of the word is introduced (257).
Their discipline has been sufficient to cause pain at the micro level of everyday life for the children.
The revision of tasks was little discussed and clarified, and led to all kinds of problems in the everyday division of responsibilities.
The ultimate goal of most perceptual researchers is, or at least should be, to provide an account for perception as it occurs in everyday life.
The first one is unlikely to occur in everyday conversation.
The key to understanding the difference is its relation to the 'cultural praxis of everyday life'.
The device contains a set of useful everyday scripts.
What remained to be decided was the ending - how does one leave the spiritual high point of the experience and rejoin the everyday world?
The history of the physics of motion provides an example of adverse effects that everyday experiences may have on the development of scientific theories.
Everyday tasks such as reading for meaning, speech production or translation require other more complex schemas.
One area where individual freedom might be restricted and dependence become a reality, is in the management of food in everyday life.
The construction, however, does not seem to be part of everyday speech but to be restricted to learned registers.
In local schemes, on the contrary, the past is seen as an integral part of the everyday living environment and as economically and socially productive.
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