nowadays

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/
See all 2 pronunciations
/ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/ · /ˈnuː.ə.deɪz/

Definition of nowadays

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. (not-comparable)At the present time; in the current era.
    “Cars nowadays are more efficient.”
    “Me-thinkes miſtreſſe, you ſhould haue little reaſon for that: and yet to ſay the truth, reaſon and loue keepe little company together, now-adayes.”
    “What is it that now adayes makes all our quarrells mortall?”
    “The appellation of Germany, is ſeldom uſed now-a-days any where but in the title of the Emperor and Elector of Mentz.”
    “And in his spare moments, of which there were not many nowadays, he would go alone to the quarry, collect a load of broken stone, and drag it down to the site of the windmill unassisted.”

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Etymology

From now + adays.

Anagrams of nowadays

2 plays · some not in Scrabble

Words you can make from nowadays

131 playable · top: NOWAYS (12 pts)

Best play noways 12 points

5-letter words

16 words

4-letter words

49 words

3-letter words

46 words

2-letter words

19 words

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