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Daily is a related term of familiar.


As adjectives the difference between daily and familiar

is that daily is quotidian, that occurs every day, or at least every working day while familiar is familial.

As an adverb daily

is quotidianly, every day.

As a noun daily

is a newspaper that is published every day.

daily

English

Adjective

(-)
  • quotidian, that occurs every day, or at least every working day
  • * Bible, Matthew vi. 11
    • Give us this day our daily bread.
  • * Macaulay
    • Bunyan has told us that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands.
  • * Milton
    • Man hath his daily work of body or mind / Appointed, which declares his dignity, / And the regard of Heaven on all his ways.
  • diurnal, by daylight, as opposed to nightly

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • quotidianly, every day
  • diurnally, by daylight

    • Noun

    (dailies)
  • a newspaper that is published every day.
  • (UK) a cleaner who comes in daily.
  • (UK, slang) a daily disposable.
  • (video games) A quest in a massively multiplayer online game that can be repeated every day for cumulative rewards.

    • Synonyms

    * daily help * daily maid (woman only)

    See also

    * quotidian * everyday

    Anagrams

    * English frequency adverbs

    familiar

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Known to one.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
  • Acquainted.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=20 citation , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}
  • Intimate or friendly.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar.
  • Inappropriately intimate or friendly.
    • (Camden)
  • Of or pertaining to a family; familial.
  • * Byron
    • familiar feuds

    Synonyms

    * (acquainted) acquainted * close, friendly, intimate, personal * (inappropriately intimate or friendly) cheeky, fresh, impudent

    Antonyms

    * (known to one) unfamiliar, unknown * (acquainted) unacquainted * (intimate) cold, cool, distant, impersonal, standoffish, unfriendly

    Derived terms

    * overfamiliar * familiarity * familiarly

    Related terms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A member of one's family or household.
  • (obsolete) A close friend.
  • *, II.i.4.2:
    • a friend of mine, that finding a receipt in Brassavola, would needs take hellebore in substance, and try it on his own person; but had not some of his familiars come to visit him by chance, he had by his indiscretion hazarded himself; many such I have observed.
  • An attendant spirit, often in animal form.
    • The witch’s familiar was a black cat.

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