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Daily vs Wonted - What's the difference?

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Daily is a related term of wonted.


As adjectives the difference between daily and wonted

is that daily is quotidian, that occurs every day, or at least every working day while wonted is usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed.

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

    wonted

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed.
  • * 1836 , (Charles Dickens), (Sketches by Boz): illustrative of every-day life and every-day people:
    • Rose Villa has once again resumed its wonted appearance; the dining-room furniture has been replaced; the tables are as nicely polished as formerly; the horsehair chairs are ranged against the wall, as regularly as ever [...]
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
  • * 2008 , William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes:
    • Superficially, the affairs of 'Every Other Week' settled into their wonted form again, and for Fulkerson they seemed thoroughly reinstated.
  • * 2008 (tr.?), (Lodovico Ariosto), (Orlando Furioso):
    • But not with wonted welcome;—inly moved [...]

    Related terms

    * wont * wontedly * wone