Workaday
adjective
Ordinary, typical or relating to the routine or normal activities of everyday life.
He went from his glamorous acting career to a workaday job in an office.
Often appears as...
- workaday world
- workaday life
adjective
Ordinary, typical or relating to the routine or normal activities of everyday life.
He went from his glamorous acting career to a workaday job in an office.
Often appears as...
- workaday world
- workaday life
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Not Exciting
Indicates something is not special or remarkable, just typical of what you'd expect daily.
His workaday commute involved the same old train ride every morning.
Pro Tip 2/3Routine Tasks
Emphasizes the mundane aspect of activities or tasks that are done regularly.
She found herself caught up in the workaday tasks of filing and data entry.
Pro Tip 3/3Everyday Language
It's used in casual conversation, not typically in formal settings or documents.
They chatted about workaday matters while waiting for the meeting to start.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Exciting
Indicates something is not special or remarkable, just typical of what you'd expect daily.
His workaday commute involved the same old train ride every morning.
Pro Tip 2/3Routine Tasks
Emphasizes the mundane aspect of activities or tasks that are done regularly.
She found herself caught up in the workaday tasks of filing and data entry.
Pro Tip 3/3Everyday Language
It's used in casual conversation, not typically in formal settings or documents.
They chatted about workaday matters while waiting for the meeting to start.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Exciting
Indicates something is not special or remarkable, just typical of what you'd expect daily.
His workaday commute involved the same old train ride every morning.
Pro Tip 2/3Routine Tasks
Emphasizes the mundane aspect of activities or tasks that are done regularly.
She found herself caught up in the workaday tasks of filing and data entry.
Pro Tip 3/3Everyday Language
It's used in casual conversation, not typically in formal settings or documents.
They chatted about workaday matters while waiting for the meeting to start.
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Quote examples
Jim Hightower
American Activist
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.
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Mariella Frostrup
British Journalist
Normally, the thin-skinned have an endless array of excuses for why their workaday interactions are so much harder to bear for them than for the rest of us. In the eyes of the self-suffering, they are being victimised, used and always abused, when they're actually experiencing exactly the same body blows as the rest of us.
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Will Self
English Author
With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.
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John Burnside
Scottish Writer
I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.
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Jacob Weisberg
American Journalist
Where the grifter is shameless, the grafter shrinks from exposure, which could only endanger the racket. He is greedy but not creatively ambitious. He toils in mundane self-dealing, insider trading, bribe taking, witness tampering, and other forms of workaday corruption.
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James Turrell
American Artist
I feel that buildings often have a workaday aspect that you see during the daylight hours, and a more resplendent side that emerges after dark.
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Antonio Tabucchi
Italian Writer
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
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Donald McCaig
American Novelist
I'm a workaday writer.
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Jim Hightower
American Activist
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.
Quote examples
Mariella Frostrup
British Journalist
Normally, the thin-skinned have an endless array of excuses for why their workaday interactions are so much harder to bear for them than for the rest of us. In the eyes of the self-suffering, they are being victimised, used and always abused, when they're actually experiencing exactly the same body blows as the rest of us.
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Will Self
English Author
With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.
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John Burnside
Scottish Writer
I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.
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Jacob Weisberg
American Journalist
Where the grifter is shameless, the grafter shrinks from exposure, which could only endanger the racket. He is greedy but not creatively ambitious. He toils in mundane self-dealing, insider trading, bribe taking, witness tampering, and other forms of workaday corruption.
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James Turrell
American Artist
I feel that buildings often have a workaday aspect that you see during the daylight hours, and a more resplendent side that emerges after dark.
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Antonio Tabucchi
Italian Writer
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
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Donald McCaig
American Novelist
I'm a workaday writer.
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