daily

1. 1.

   of or belonging to or occurring every day

   “daily routine”

   “a daily paper”

   Synonymsday-to-dayday-by-dayday-after-day

   Similarperiodic
2. 2.

   appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions

   “casual clothes”

   “everyday clothes”

   Synonymscasualeveryday

   Similarinformal

1. 1.

   every day; without missing a day

   “he stops by daily”
2. 2.

   gradually and progressively

   “his health weakened day by day”

   Synonymsday by day

1. 1.

   a newspaper that is published every day

   Broadernewspaper

Other forms of daily

plural

dailies·

comparative

dailier·

superlative

dailiest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about daily

What does daily mean?

daily means "of or belonging to or occurring every day". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in daily?

daily has 2 syllables: dai-ly. The stress falls on "dai". In IPA it is /ˈdeɪli/.

What is another word for daily?

Close synonyms include day-to-day, day-by-day, day-after-day, casual, everyday. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is daily a common word?

daily is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.