Synonyms for workaday
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : wur-kuh-dey |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɜr kəˌdeɪ |
Top 10 synonyms for workaday
- accepted
- accomplished
- accustomed
- actual
- applied
- average
- blah
- boiler plate
- boring
- both feet on the ground
- bourgeois
- careful
- casual
- characteristic
- characterless
- chronic
- clean
- clichéd
- colloquial
- colorless
- comformable
- commonplace
- commonsensical
- concentrated
- corny
- correct
- customary
- cut-and-dried
- daily
- dead
- diddly
- dime a dozen
- dime-a-dozen
- direct
- doable
- domestic
- down-to-earth
- drab
- dry
- dull
- earnest
- earthly
- effective
- efficient
- empirical
- enterprising
- everyday
- expected
- expeditious
- experimental
- factual
- fair
- familiar
- familiar tune
- feasible
- fixed
- flat
- frequent
- functional
- garden
- garden variety
- garden-variety
- general
- generic
- grind
- habitual
- hackneyed
- handy
- hard-boiled
- hardworking
- ho-hum
- homely
- homespun
- household
- humble
- humdrum
- implicit
- in action
- in operation
- indifferent
- industrious
- inferior
- informal
- intent
- intimate
- irksome
- known
- lackluster
- lifeless
- literal
- lowly
- lusterless
- mainstream
- matter-of-course
- matter-of-fact
- mean
- mediocre
- methodical
- middle-of-the-road
- middling
- modest
- monotonous
- mundane
- native
- natural
- no great shakes
- normal
- nothing
- nowhere
- nuts and bolts
- obvious
- old hat
- operative
- orderly
- ordinary
- organized
- pabulum
- painstaking
- passable
- pedestrian
- per diem
- periodic
- plain
- plastic
- platitudinous
- plebeian
- possible
- practicable
- practical
- practiced
- pragmatic
- prevailing
- prevalent
- probable
- prosaic
- prose
- prosy
- proverbial
- purposeful
- quotidian
- rational
- reasonable
- recognizable
- regular
- repeated
- rife
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- sane
- seasonal
- second-rate
- sedulous
- sensible
- serious
- serviceable
- simple
- skillful
- so-so
- sober
- solid
- sound
- square
- stale
- standard
- starch
- stereotyped
- stock
- systematic
- tame
- tedious
- thorough
- threadbare
- traditional
- trite
- trivial
- typic
- typical
- unceremonious
- undistinguished
- uneventful
- unexceptional
- unidealistic
- unimaginative
- uninspired
- uninspiring
- uninteresting
- universal
- unmemorable
- unnoteworthy
- unpretentious
- unremarkable
- unromantic
- unsophisticated
- unvaried
- usable
- usual
- utile
- utilitarian
- vanilla
- vapid
- virtual
- wearisome
- well-ordered
- white-bread
- whitebread
- widespread
- wonted
- workable
- workaday
- workday
- working
- worldly
- worn-out
- yawn
- zero
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for workaday
- abnormal
- abstruse
- alien
- aloof
- amateur
- ambiguous
- aristocratic
- attractive
- atypical
- beautiful
- breaking
- business
- cold
- complex
- complicated
- cool
- creative
- cultured
- decorated
- different
- difficult
- disorganized
- distant
- distinctive
- dressed-up
- eccentric
- embellished
- excellent
- exceptional
- excited
- exciting
- extraordinary
- flippant
- foreign
- formal
- heavenly
- hidden
- high
- ignorant
- imaginative
- imperceptible
- impossible
- impractical
- incapable
- incomprehensible
- inconstant
- industrial
- inefficient
- inexperienced
- infrequent
- intelligent
- interesting
- intricate
- irrational
- irregular
- new
- noble
- noteworthy
- obscure
- obscured
- occasional
- original
- ornate
- peculiar
- pretty
- rare
- refined
- remarkable
- reserved
- scarce
- smart
- sophisticated
- special
- strange
- superior
- supernatural
- thinking
- thoughtless
- trivial
- unacquainted
- unapproachable
- unattainable
- unbusinesslike
- unclear
- uncommon
- unconventional
- undistinguished
- unexpected
- unfamiliar
- unfeasible
- unfriendly
- unimportant
- unknowledgeable
- unknown
- unlikely
- unorthodox
- unprofessional
- unproficient
- unrealistic
- unreasonable
- unremarkable
- unseasoned
- unserious
- unserviceable
- unskilled
- unsound
- unsteady
- untraditional
- untrained
- unusual
- unworkable
- useless
- vague
- valuable
- variable
- wonderful
- worthless
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