workaday

workaday
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.] [1913 Webster]

Prithee, tell her but a workyday fortune. --Shak. [1913 Webster]


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  • workaday — workaday, workday Workaday is now used only as an adjective in the meaning ‘ordinary, everyday’. The usual nouns for a day on which work is done are workday and working day. In AmE, workday also means ‘the part of the day used for work’ (as in an …   Modern English usage

  • Workaday — Work a*day , n. See {Workyday}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • workaday — index household (familiar), ordinary, prevailing (current), regular (conventional), usual …   Law dictionary

  • workaday — c.1200, werkedei, from O.N. virkr dagr working day; see WORK (Cf. work) (n.) + DAY (Cf. day). Older than workday (early 15c.). It passed into an adj. 16c …   Etymology dictionary

  • workaday — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ not unusual or interesting; ordinary …   English terms dictionary

  • workaday — [wʉr′kə dā΄] adj. [ME werkedai < werk,WORK + e (prob. as in sunnedai,SUNDAY1, messeday, “mass day”) + dai,DAY] 1. of or suitable for working days; everyday 2. commonplace; ordinary …   English World dictionary

  • workaday — adjective Etymology: alteration of earlier workyday, from obsolete workyday, noun workday Date: 1554 1. of, relating to, or suited for working days < workaday clothes > 2. ordinary, prosaic < workaday activities > < a workaday life > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • workaday — [[t]wɜ͟ː(r)kədeɪ[/t]] ADJ: usu ADJ n Workaday means ordinary and not especially interesting or unusual. Enough of fantasy, the workaday world awaited him. Syn: everyday …   English dictionary

  • workaday — adjective workaday prose our workaday lives Syn: ordinary, average, run of the mill, middle of the road, conventional, unremarkable, unexceptional, humdrum, undistinguished, commonplace, mundane, pedestrian; routine, everyday, day to day, ga …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • workaday — adj. Workaday is used with these nouns: ↑world …   Collocations dictionary

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