workaday
pronunciation
How to pronounce workaday in British English:
UK [ˈwɜ:kədeɪ]
How to pronounce workaday in American English:
US [ˈwɜrkədeɪ]
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- Adjective:
- found in the ordinary course of events
Word Origin
- workaday
- c. 1200, werkedei (n.), "day designated for labor rather than religious observance or rest," from Old Norse virkr dagr "working day;" see work (n.) + day. It passed into an adjective 16c.
Example
- 1. But the pretence was maintained that the shuttle was a workaday craft .
- 2. The opening of offices and bank branches is workaday stuff .
- 3. Indeed , the tension created by these conflicting roles is what helps even the most workaday academic retain some independence of thought and intellectual vigour .
- 4. Washington has been for me not so much workaday world as theme park of the imagination .
- 5. That tally , specialists in the relatively new field of transgender law say , may make the borough 's workaday civil court one of the country 's biggest official name swappers - male names for female , vice versa and ambiguous .