nowadays
- adverb
- /ˈnaʊəˌdeɪz/
- What do 11-year-olds do nowadays?
- People nowadays
- many people nowadays
- more likely nowadays
Guilt that some people still feel nowadays can be reduced.
- Guilt that some people still feel nowadays can be reduced.
- Science used to be like that, but nowadays things have changed.
- What are you doing nowadays between us?
- Well, the way it's actually done nowadays is by NMR, right?
- Everything you get shipped nowadays is full of plastic.
- So I feel like nowadays protein is the hot topic.
- A lot of the youth nowadays, it's not their fault.
- You know, And nowadays kids aren't taught anything like that.
- So, but nowadays that's not how the world works.
- And nowadays every criminal wants to be in charge.
- You know, maybe this gets a little bit more rare nowadays.
- I stream movies like most people nowadays.
- But I think, I think I believe that it's all better nowadays.
- But this is, you know, common dentistry practice nowadays.
- And I just wish teachers were teaching that to their children nowadays.
- Romantic relationships, I feel like it's like a dance nowadays.
- Now this is where sometimes we are nowadays and.
Examples
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Science used to be like that, but nowadays things have changed.
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Science used to be like that, but nowadays things have changed.
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The industry is different nowadays.
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Everywhere I go nowadays someone asks about you.
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You want to talk about a serious issue nowadays, people tune out.
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It's hard to know who anyone is nowadays with all these masks people are wearing.
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Everything you get shipped nowadays is full of plastic.
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I doubt if people nowadays have knowledge of a victory garden or have seen an inchworm.
Fiction book (1990) -
But nowadays, thank goodness, it resembles something closer to, shall we say, a democracy.
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The industry is different nowadays.
Synonyms
At this exact moment or right away
In the period just before now
At the present time
At this time
Now, not in the past or future
The present time, especially compared with the past
At the present time
At the present time in general
Antonyms
How Current
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word nowadays comes from the old phrase now a days, which simply means 'now, in the days'. It joins now ('the present time') and days ('times'), so nowadays is used to talk about what is true 'at the present time'.