workaday
5 synonyms and 5 antonyms for workaday, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Adj — Fit for ordinary, everyday use.
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Synonyms by Meaning
2. adj
Ordinary and unremarkable.
“But then something started to shift—the Burning Man aesthetic was creeping into the workaday world; festival culture went mainstream.”
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Etymology
Comes from Middle English werkedei, from Old Norse virkr dagr (“working day”); it is cognate to the later word workday (see work and day). It has been used in the adjective sense since the 16th century, and by surface analysis breaks down as work + -a- + day. It is first attested around 1200.
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