Workaday Definition

wûrkə-dā
adjective
Of or suitable for working days; everyday.
Webster's New World
Commonplace; ordinary.
Webster's New World

Mundane or commonplace.

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Origin of Workaday

  • Circa 1200, Middle English werkedei, from Old Norse virkr dagr (“working day"). Cognate to later workday; see work and day. Used in adjective sense from 16th century. Note that the surface analysis work +"Ž a +"Ž day is cognate, but not the correct etymology - a much older formation.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English werkeday workday werke (alteration of work work) day day day

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Workaday Sentence Examples

  • However, like so many prestigious but essentially workaday buildings, only rather functional and not very prepossessing brick backs the impressive façade.

  • Let us escape from this weary workaday world by the side door of music.

  • Ex-works engines, engines awaiting scrap and in workaday condition, and stripped down in the works are all included.

  • The question is whether we can find secreted in the language of a particular text the bustling, workaday life of the common people.

  • Badami, a workaday country town, sits beside a picturesque lake close to clusters of remarkable ancient temples.

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