workaday
UK/ˈwɜːkədeɪ//ˈwɜɹkədeɪ/
workaday adjective: suitable for everyday use.
Adjective
workaday (comparative more workaday, superlative most workaday)
- Suitable for everyday use.
- Synonyms:
- everyday, general, regular, average, basic, bog-standard, common, common as bums, common as dirt, common as muck
- 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 to understand better why we are here in this world."1916, James Joyce, chapter III, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 124
- 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 Atlantic
- Synonyms:
- garden variety, ordinary, typical, average, medial, basic, bog-standard, common, commonplace, common-and-garden
Noun
workaday (plural workadays)
- A workday.
workaday meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
workaday in Tamil
- வேலைநாளுக்குரிய, வேலை நாளுக்கேற்ற, உழைக்கிற, பாடுபடுகிற, கிளர்ச்சியற்ற, பொது நிலைப்பட்ட
workaday in Urdu
- معمولی, روزانہ
workaday in Malayalam
- average, ordinary, run-of-the-mil
- സാധാരണ, പ്രത്യേകതയില്ലാത്ത, സാമാന്യ, അപൂർവ്വതയില്ലാത്ത, അദിവ്യ, തുക്കടാ
Synonyms of workaday
- everyday
- general
- regular
- average
- basic
- bog-standard
- common
- common as bums
- common as dirt
- common as muck
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- 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
- garden variety
- ordinary
- typical
- medial
- commonplace
- common-and-garden
- common-or-garden
- congruent
- consistent
- conventional
- customary
- expected
- improminent
- mundane
- natural
- normal
Forms of workaday
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more workaday |
| superlative | most workaday |
| alternative form (obsolete) | workyday |
| Noun | |
| plural | workadays |
Origin of workaday
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.
Questions about workaday
- What does workaday mean?
- Workaday means suitable for everyday use.
- What is workaday in Tamil?
- Workaday in Tamil is வேலைநாளுக்குரிய, வேலை நாளுக்கேற்ற, உழைக்கிற. See Workaday meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is workaday?
- Workaday can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce workaday?
- Workaday is pronounced /ˈwɜːkədeɪ/ (UK).
Words near workaday in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: workaday (page history and authors); workaday (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); workaday (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); workaday (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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