workaday
Americanadjective
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of or befitting working days; characteristic of a workday and its occupations.
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ordinary; commonplace; everyday; prosaic.
adjective
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being a part of general human experience; ordinary
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suitable for working days; everyday or practical
Etymology
Origin of workaday
1150–1200; alteration (probably after nowadays ) of earlier worky-day workday, alteration (by association with holiday ) of Middle English werkeday, obscurely derived from work and day
Example Sentences
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In a 1991 interview, Kurosawa recalled the origins of “Seven Samurai” as a story about the workaday existence of a single samurai.
People trusted him because for much of his career he’d been a workaday reporter at United Press International.
Historically, country music’s purview has been broad and workaday, with songs that reflected the lives of their audience.
His inspiration was not any architectural theory or school so much as the workaday landscape of Southern California itself, the brash free-for-all he had noticed as soon as he arrived in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times
Mr. McGuane’s hapless heroes are local politicians, insurance salesmen, small-town lawyers and other workaday hustlers intent on “getting somewhere among people going nowhere.”
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