Workaday

Definition: Workaday

Workaday

Adjective

1. 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.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "workaday" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)

Synonyms: Workaday

Activity

Industrious, assiduous, diligent, sedulous, notable, painstaking; intent; (attention); indefatigable; (persevering) a; unwearied; unsleeping, never tired; plodding, hard-working; businesslike, workaday.

Business

Adjective: businesslike; workaday; professional; official, functional; busy; (actively employed); on hand, in hand, in one's hands; afoot; on foot, on the anvil; going on; acting.

Conformity

Conventional; (customary); of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; in the natural order of things; ordinary, common, habitual, usual, everyday, workaday.

Books

• Negro Workaday Songs (Social Study Series (University of North Carolina (1793-1962)).) (reference)

• Workaday schooners : the Edward W. Smith photographs taken on Narragansett Bay, 1895-1905, together with writings and plans describing the designs and use of schooners of the period (reference)

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Expression using "workaday": workaday clothes. Additional references.

Albanian

pune (ferial, operating, working), i zakonshëm (accustomed, common, common or garden, commonplace, consuetudinary, current, customary, daily, day to day, everyday, familiar, general, habitual, homely, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, ready made, regular, routine, second best, standard, usual, vulgar, wonted). (various references)

Arabic 

‏يومي (daily, diurnal, quotidian), ‏مبتذل (banal, common, commonplace, conventional, corny, everyday, fade, fading, hack, hackneyed, outworn, overused, pedestrian, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, prose, routine, slipshod, stale, stereotyped, tacky, threadbare, tired, trite, trivial, vapid, vulgar, well worn, worn out), ‏خاص بأيام العمل. (various references)

Bulgarian 

всекидневен (commonplace, daily, day to day, everyday, informal, knockabout), прозаичен (literal, matter of fact, pedestrian, prosaic, prose, prosy, unimaginative, unromantic), делничен (everyday, ferial, pedestrian, unromantic, weekday). (various references)

Czech

všedný, praktický (businesslike, convenient, down to earth, hands-on, handy, hard-headed, practical, realistic), každodenní (casual, daily, diurnal, everyday, quotidian, weekly). (various references)

French

de travail (work, working), de tous les jours, banal (well worn). (various references)

German

Alltags- (everyday, weekday), alltäglich (commonplace, daily, day to day, everyday, humdrum, mundane, ordinary, prosaic, prosaically, trivial). (various references)

Greek 

καθημερινόσ (daily, everyday), συνήθησ (beaten, customary, familiar, habitual, ordinary, stock, unexceptional, usual, wonted), πρακτικόσ (businesslike, operable, operatable, practical, pragmatic, pragmatical, workable), εργάσιμη μέρα (working day). (various references)

Hebrew 

יום יומי (daily, everyday, ordinary, routine). (various references)

Hungarian

mindennapi (accustomed, common, daily, day to day, everyday, funny, quotidian), hétköznapi (casual, everyday, ferial, informal, ordinary, prosy, weekday). (various references)

Italian

ordinario (coarse, common, ordinary, ornery, permanent, run of the mill, simple, usual, usually), noioso (annoying, boring, dull, humdrum, onerous, pesky, prosy, slow, stodgy, tame, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, worrisome), comune (average, collective, common, common run, commonplace, commune, conventional, everyday, familiar, general, joint, municipality, ordinary, parish, plain, platitudinous, popular, prevalent, public, rife, standard, together). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

俗界 (secular life, workaday world), 俗世�" (the workaday world). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぞくせけ�" (the workaday world), ぞっかい (continuing, explanation in common language, resumption, secular life, workaday world). (various references)

Manx

laaoil (daily, diurnal, everyday). (various references)

Pig Latin

orkadayway.(various references)

Portuguese

rotineiro (uneventful), prosaico (literal, matter-of-fact, pedestrian, prosaic, prosy, unimaginative), diário (daily, daily newspaper, day in day out, day-book, day-by-day, diary, diurnal, everyday, newspaper, quotidian), de todos os dias (viatic). (various references)

Romanian

prozaic (bread and butter, commonplace, matter of fact, pedestrian, prosaic, prosaically, prosily, prosy, unimaginative, unpoetical), obişnuit (accustomed, average, common, commonplace, customarily, customary, frequent, frequently, habitual, habitually, habitue, normal, ordinary, regular, rife, routine, standard, used to, usual, usually, wonted), de fiecare zi (diurnal, everyday). (various references)

Russian 

будничный, повседневный (day to day, day-to-day, everyday). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svakidašnji (everyday, prosaic, vernacular). (various references)

Spanish

prosaico (earthbound, everyday, matter of fact, ordinary, pedestrian, prosaic, prose, prosy), de cada día (daily, everyday). (various references)

Swedish

alldaglig (commonplace, daily, everyday, homely, humdrum, lowly, ordinary, pedestrian, plain). (various references)

Turkish

sıradan (average, banal, blah, casual, casually, common, common or garden, commonplace, copybook, cut and dried, exoteric, hack, hackneyed, mediocre, nondescript, ordinary, prosaic, quotidian, regular, routine, run-off-the-mill, small, straight, unexceptional), günlük (casually, daily, day to day, daybook, diary, diurnal, everyday, frankincense, fresh, journal, of every day, per diem, quotidian), gündelik (casual, casually, daily, daily fee, day-to-day money, everyday, leisure, per diem, quotidian, ready), alelâde (blah, common, common or garden, common place, commonly, hack, mediocre, nondescript, ordinary, run-off-the-mill). (various references)

Ukrainian

робочий день (day), нудний (arid, barren, dead alive, depressing, heartbreaking, humdrum, insipid, irksome, long winded, matter of fact, monotonous, prolix, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, soggy, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tedious, weariful, wearying), будній, буденний (everyday, prosy), повсякденний (bread and butter, daily, day to day, everyday, for everyday wear). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thường ng� y tầm thường. (various references)

Misspellings

"Workaday" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: noraday. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: daywork, roadway, workday.

-3 letters: award, dorky, dowry, rowdy, wordy.

-4 letters: arak, away, awry, dark, dawk, dork, dory, draw, dray, kayo, kyar, okay, okra, orad, raya, road, wady, ward, wark, wary, woad, word, work, yard.

-5 letters: ado, ark, awa, dak, daw, day, dor, dow, dry, kay, koa, kor, oak, oar, oka, ora, rad, raw, ray.