quotidian
/kwɒˈtɪdɪən
/ /kwəʊˈtɪdɪən/adjective
1Of or occurring every day; daily: the car sped noisily off through the quotidian traffic...
- Models sat cross-legged on the floor, smoking and poring over The Daily, Fashion Week's quotidian rag.
- The orderly operation of the federal government depends upon this continuous and quotidian cooperation.
- She loved them for their mortality, for their casual acceptance of the dark, and for their quotidian lives, so unlike her own.
1.1Ordinary or everyday; mundane: his story is an achingly human one, mired in quotidian details...
- 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.
- Reasoning for the ordinary and quotidian experiences of observation, Diderot demanded not only the artist but also the art critic to be liberated from the studio model.
- So a different outlook would be one which seeks to fuse again ordinary quotidian life with beauty, with art in its proper sense as ‘a thing made well’.
Synonyms
daily, everyday, occurring each/every day, day-to-day
rare diurnal, circadian
ordinary, average, normal, run-of-the-mill, everyday, standard, typical, middle-of-the-road, common, conventional, mainstream, unremarkable, unexceptional, unpretentious, modest, plain, simple, workaday, undistinguished, nondescript, characterless, colourless, commonplace, humdrum, mundane, unmemorable;
pedestrian, prosaic, uninteresting, uneventful, dull, boring, uninspiring, homely, homespun;
British common or garden;
North American garden-variety
informal OK, so-so, bog-standard, nothing to write home about, a dime a dozen, no great shakes, not up to much
North American informal ornery
2 Medicine Denoting the malignant form of malaria.
Origin
Middle English: via Old French from Latin quotidianus, earlier cotidianus, from cotidie 'daily'.