Workaday

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Workaday \Work"a*day`\, n.
     See {Workyday}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Workyday \Work"y*day`\, n. [See {Workday}, {Workingday}.]
     A week day or working day, as distinguished from Sunday or a
     holiday. Also used adjectively. [Written also {workiday}, and
     {workaday}.] [Obs. or Colloq.]
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           Prithee, tell her but a workyday fortune. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  workaday
       adj : found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday
             scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite
             like a real...train conductor to add color to a
             quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant [syn: {everyday}, {mundane},
              {quotidian}, {routine}, {unremarkable}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "workaday":
     Attic, banausic, breadwinning, businesslike, chaste, classic,
     classical, commercial, common, commonplace, everyday, garden,
     garden-variety, homely, homespun, household, lowly, materialistic,
     matter-of-fact, moneymaking, mundane, nondescript, ordinary, plain,
     practical, prosaic, prosy, pure, pure and simple, quotidian,
     realistic, routine, simple, unremarkable, usual, utilitarian,
     workday, working