workaday
Speech parts
1. workaday - Noun
2. workaday - Adjective
3. workaday - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
See Workyday.
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Examples
Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.
[T]he effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation of the most ordinary workaday books; for when potboilers adopt the new style, then the revolution is complete.
Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
a placid everyday scene
it was a routine day