毎日|まいにちmainichi[1]atamadaka (head-high)
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- noun, adverbevery day; daily
- Synonym日ごとにひごとにNeutralNeutral. Emphasizes change or progress from one day to the next, as in 「日ごとに寒くなる」; 「毎日」 simply states that something happens every day.
- Related日ごと夜ごとひごとよごとWrittenWritten/formal prose. Describes something continuing day and night without a break, with a literary, exaggerated feel; in everyday speech say 「毎日」.
Use 「毎日」 as the default word for every day. Choose 「日ごとに」 to stress day-by-day change, and 「日ごと夜ごと」 for a literary, exaggerated sense of day and night without pause.
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