workaday
Suitable for everyday use.
Adjective
- Suitable for everyday use.
Synonyms: everyday general regular average basic bog-standard common common as bums common as dirt common as muck common as pig tracks dime a dozen frequent habitual nonrare par for the course pedestrian plain quotidian routinary routine ten a penny two a penny usual
- Mundane or commonplace.
- A retreat, my dear boys, signifies a withdrawal for a while from the cares of our life, the cares of this workaday world, in order to examine the state of our conscience, to reflect on the mysteries of holy religion and...
- But then something started to shift—the Burning Man aesthetic was creeping into the workaday world; festival culture went mainstream. - 2021 February 6, Rachel Monroe, “Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World”, in The...
Synonyms: garden variety ordinary typical average medial basic bog-standard common commonplace common-and-garden common-or-garden congruent consistent conventional customary everyday expected improminent mundane natural normal par for the course plain plain vanilla
Origin
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. By surface analysis, work + -a- + day. First attested in c. 1200.
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Noun
- A workday.