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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EV'ERYDAY, a. [every and day.] Used or being every day; common; usual; as everyday wit; an everyday suit of clothes.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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 [syn: everyday, mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday]
2: appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions; "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes" [syn: casual, everyday, daily]
3: commonplace and ordinary; "the familiar everyday world"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1623 encountered or used routinely or typically ; ordinary <everyday clothes> • everydayness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 occurring every day. 2 suitable for or used on ordinary days. 3 commonplace, usual.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Everyday Ev"er*y*day`, a. Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit or clothes. The mechanical drudgery of his everyday employment. --Sir. J. Herchel.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

You use everyday to describe something which happens or is used every day, or forms a regular and basic part of your life, so it is not especially interesting or unusual. In the course of my everyday life, I had very little contact with teenagers. ...the everyday problems of living in the city... ADJ: usu ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

Attic, accepted, accustomed, average, chaste, circadian, classic, classical, colloquial, common, commonplace, conformable, consuetudinary, conventional, conversational, current, customary, daily, diurnal, dull, established, familiar, frequent, frequentative, garden, garden-variety, generally accepted, habitual, homely, homespun, household, inferior, informal, lowly, many, many times, matter-of-fact, mediocre, mundane, nondescript, nonstandard, normal, normative, not rare, obtaining, of common occurrence, oft-repeated, oftentime, ordinary, plain, popular, predominating, prescribed, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, prosaic, prosy, pure, pure and simple, quotidian, received, recurrent, regular, regulation, routine, run-of-the-mill, set, simple, spoken, standard, stock, substandard, thick-coming, time-honored, traditional, uneducated, unexceptional, unexciting, unimaginative, universal, unliterary, unremarkable, unstudied, usual, vernacular, widespread, wonted, workaday, workday