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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