nowadaysadverb
uk/ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/us/ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/B1 at the present time, in comparison to the past:
Who remembers those movies nowadays?
Nowadays, I bake my own bread rather than buy it.
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- Children challenge their parents' authority far more nowadays than they did in the past.
- Accidents due to failure of safety equipment are uncommon nowadays.
- Spy thrillers with plots based on the Cold War look particularly dated nowadays.
- Most of our custom comes from tourists nowadays.
- The first mobile phones were heavy and clumsy to use, but nowadays they are much easier to handle.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Now
- contemporary
- day
- de nos jours
- even
- existing
- here
- just
- modern-day
- moment
- ongoing
- present
- present-day
- prevailing
- right
- state
- still
- there's no time like the present idiom
- this minute idiom
- today
- topical
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