Quotidian
adjective
Done, found, or used everyday; common and ordinary.
Most of us are confined to a life of quotidian routine.
Often appears as...
- quotidian routine
- quotidian activities
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Formal
Academic
adjective
Relating to a day or each day.
He was diagnosed with a quotidian fever.
Often appears as...
- quotidian fever
- quotidian cycle
Usage tips
Formal, Neutral
Technical
adjective
Done, found, or used everyday; common and ordinary.
Most of us are confined to a life of quotidian routine.
Often appears as...
- quotidian routine
- quotidian activities
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adjective
Relating to a day or each day.
He was diagnosed with a quotidian fever.
Often appears as...
- quotidian fever
- quotidian cycle
Usage tips
Formal, Neutral
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Everyday Normalcy
Quotidian emphasizes the ordinary, possibly dull nature of daily life, often contrasting with the extraordinary.
His autobiography details the quotidian aspects of small-town life.
Pro Tip 2/3Lacks Excitement
Using 'quotidian' suggests that something is so normal that it might be boring or taken for granted.
She found her quotidian office work to be increasingly monotonous.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Tone
The word 'quotidian' is neither positive nor negative. Use it for factual statements about daily events.
Brushing your teeth is a quotidian task necessary for good hygiene.
Pro Tip 1/3Everyday Normalcy
Quotidian emphasizes the ordinary, possibly dull nature of daily life, often contrasting with the extraordinary.
His autobiography details the quotidian aspects of small-town life.
Pro Tip 2/3Lacks Excitement
Using 'quotidian' suggests that something is so normal that it might be boring or taken for granted.
She found her quotidian office work to be increasingly monotonous.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Tone
The word 'quotidian' is neither positive nor negative. Use it for factual statements about daily events.
Brushing your teeth is a quotidian task necessary for good hygiene.
Pro Tip 1/3Everyday Normalcy
Quotidian emphasizes the ordinary, possibly dull nature of daily life, often contrasting with the extraordinary.
His autobiography details the quotidian aspects of small-town life.
Pro Tip 2/3Lacks Excitement
Using 'quotidian' suggests that something is so normal that it might be boring or taken for granted.
She found her quotidian office work to be increasingly monotonous.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Tone
The word 'quotidian' is neither positive nor negative. Use it for factual statements about daily events.
Brushing your teeth is a quotidian task necessary for good hygiene.
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Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...
just flabbergasted she said I usually see all the pretty stuff I don't get the seed that the kind of crummy stuff so she was thrilled to see something that was more quotidian but again look at the connection masks beads silks that
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Chris Abani on the...
while I kill the goat. It didn't seem like a lot, for this guy who'd seen so much, and to whom the killing of a goat must have seemed such a quotidian experience, still found it in himself to try to protect me.
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Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...
just flabbergasted she said I usually see all the pretty stuff I don't get the seed that the kind of crummy stuff so she was thrilled to see something that was more quotidian but again look at the connection masks beads silks that
Video examples
Chris Abani on the...
while I kill the goat. It didn't seem like a lot, for this guy who'd seen so much, and to whom the killing of a goat must have seemed such a quotidian experience, still found it in himself to try to protect me.
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Darin Strauss
American Writer
After a life deprived of everything from romantic love to the choice of when to wake up in the morning, after 29 years without the ability to have a career or even to be alone at toilet, the Bijani sisters are not symbols but women who have had to live a shared life of constant, quotidian sacrifice.
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Rumaan Alam
American Author
To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I'm amused by my children's awe at quotidian things - a toy helicopter, a bubble bath, the visible tentacles on a plate of calamari. And I'm envious of their ability to attain something I often can't: a state of transcendence induced by art.
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Simon Hoggart
British Journalist
I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news.
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Mark Fisher
British Writer
When The Fall pummeled their way into my nervous system, circa 1983, it was as if a world that was familiar - and which I had thought too familiar, too quotidian to feature in rock - had returned, expressionistically transfigured, permanently altered.
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Harvey Pekar
American Writer
I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life - quotidian life. What happens to a person during a working day, marital relations, and stuff like that.
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Ben Marcus
American Author
The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.
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Andrew Solomon
Writer
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.
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Anthea Butler
American Educator
Incidents of racial bias and implicit bias happen to African-Americans of every social class daily in America. White people seldom notice or dwell on these as they encounter the quotidian events of their day.
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Elizabeth Gilbert
American Novelist
Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.
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Laura Lippman
American Author
I like books steeped in the quotidian - details about work and place. You can learn how to run a chicken-and-waffle restaurant by reading 'Mildred Pierce.' And I like fiction about money.
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Darin Strauss
American Writer
After a life deprived of everything from romantic love to the choice of when to wake up in the morning, after 29 years without the ability to have a career or even to be alone at toilet, the Bijani sisters are not symbols but women who have had to live a shared life of constant, quotidian sacrifice.
Quote examples
Rumaan Alam
American Author
To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I'm amused by my children's awe at quotidian things - a toy helicopter, a bubble bath, the visible tentacles on a plate of calamari. And I'm envious of their ability to attain something I often can't: a state of transcendence induced by art.
Quote examples
Simon Hoggart
British Journalist
I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news.
Quote examples
Mark Fisher
British Writer
When The Fall pummeled their way into my nervous system, circa 1983, it was as if a world that was familiar - and which I had thought too familiar, too quotidian to feature in rock - had returned, expressionistically transfigured, permanently altered.
Quote examples
Harvey Pekar
American Writer
I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life - quotidian life. What happens to a person during a working day, marital relations, and stuff like that.
Quote examples
Ben Marcus
American Author
The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.
Quote examples
Andrew Solomon
Writer
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.
Quote examples
Anthea Butler
American Educator
Incidents of racial bias and implicit bias happen to African-Americans of every social class daily in America. White people seldom notice or dwell on these as they encounter the quotidian events of their day.
Quote examples
Elizabeth Gilbert
American Novelist
Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.
Quote examples
Laura Lippman
American Author
I like books steeped in the quotidian - details about work and place. You can learn how to run a chicken-and-waffle restaurant by reading 'Mildred Pierce.' And I like fiction about money.
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