workaday
Americanadjective
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of or befitting working days; characteristic of a workday and its occupations.
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ordinary; commonplace; everyday; prosaic.
adjective
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being a part of general human experience; ordinary
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suitable for working days; everyday or practical
Etymology
Origin of workaday
1150–1200; alteration (probably after nowadays ) of earlier worky-day workday, alteration (by association with holiday ) of Middle English werkeday, obscurely derived from work and day
Example Sentences
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People trusted him because for much of his career he’d been a workaday reporter at United Press International.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
After wrestling with those weighty questions, he posed a more workaday one: “What’s gonna be the gas price tomorrow?”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2025
This fundamentally misunderstands the appeal of conspiracies, though, which is that it’s more fun and exciting to believe in them instead of in workaday truths.
From Slate • May 24, 2025
But along with the workaday lines on policy plans, Mr Kinsman expects a message, loud and clear, that Canada will not be the US 51st state.
From BBC • May 23, 2025
Swim lore was his vacation talk from the workaday talk of running a zoo.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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