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.
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Word Net
workaday adj : 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 [syn: everyday, mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable]Moby Thesaurus
Attic, banausic, breadwinning, businesslike, chaste, classic, classical, commercial, common, commonplace, everyday, garden, garden-variety, homely, homespun, household, lowly, materialistic, matter-of-fact, moneymaking, mundane, nondescript, ordinary, plain, practical, prosaic, prosy, pure, pure and simple, quotidian, realistic, routine, simple, unremarkable, usual, utilitarian, workday, workingQuotations
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- 1916: "A retreat, my dear boys, signifies a withdrawal for a while from the cares of our life, the cares of this workaday world, in order to examine the state of our conscience, to reflect on the mysteries of holy religion and to understand better why we are here in this world." - James Joyce, ''Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, 102)
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