Antonyms for workaday


Grammar : Adj
Spell : wur-kuh-dey
Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɜr kəˌdeɪ


Definition of workaday

Origin :
  • c.1200, werkedei, from Old Norse virkr dagr "working day;" see work (n.) + day. Older than workday (early 15c.). It passed into an adj. 16c.
  • As in mundane : adj ordinary
  • As in ordinary : adj average; not distinctive
  • As in plain : adj normal, everyday
  • As in practical : adj realistic, useful
  • As in prosaic : adj unimaginative
  • As in routine : adj habitual
  • As in usual : adj common, typical
  • As in businesslike : adj efficient, professional
  • As in common : adj average, ordinary
  • As in commonplace : adj usual, everyday
  • As in everyday : adj common
  • As in familiar : adj common, well-known
Example sentences :
  • It is a workaday world; Darby and Joan will take it as it is, will do their best.
  • Extract from : « The Angel and the Author - and Others » by Jerome K. Jerome
  • But in the workaday world one never knows the ending till it comes.
  • Extract from : « Tommy and Co. » by Jerome K. Jerome
  • At noon, however, its workaday aspect was on; it was no more than a lunching place.
  • Extract from : « The Readjustment » by Will Irwin
  • It may have been, and most likely was, a workaday job for Richard Arkwright.
  • Extract from : « Historic Inventions » by Rupert S. Holland
  • Margot discovered she could not disturb the little girl's workaday life.
  • Extract from : « Little Jeanne of France » by Madeline Brandeis
  • In short, you carry your philosophy into your workaday life.
  • Extract from : « The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky » by Modeste Tchaikovsky
  • It is only a workaday matter, all this; but workaday stuff does the business nowadays.
  • Extract from : « Crooked Trails » by Frederic Remington
  • There was just one thing in all the room that looked poor, workaday.
  • Extract from : « Aurora the Magnificent » by Gertrude Hall
  • One is detached from all the workaday considerations of life at home.
  • Extract from : « The Happy Golfer » by Henry Leach
  • We did not know they made such cigars in this workaday world.
  • Extract from : « Idle Ideas in 1905 » by Jerome K. Jerome

Synonyms for workaday

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