workaday

/ˈwəːkədeɪ/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈwəːkədeɪ/

workaday

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final y vowel sound

wor - ka - day -> workaday

Myanmar meaning

သာမာန်ဖြစ်သော။ နေ့စဉ်ဖြစ်သော။ လက်တွေ့ကျသော။

Full entry

workaday /'wɜ:kǝdeÇ/ adj

…နေကျ။ သာမန်။ ရိုးရိုး။ simple workaday food.

More examples

‘Though in the ordinary, workaday world, you find yourself with not a friend about you, step into the other world, and a universe of friends, this great, glorious brotherhood, will be there for you.’
‘Meanwhile, in the workaday world, women receive just 76 cents for every dollar paid to men for comparable jobs.’
‘The interpenetration of the worldly and the otherworldly, the mundane and the spiritual, the workaday and the worshipful, enrich our folklore as well as our classics.’
‘On a workaday basis, it doesn't matter much, to be honest.’
‘The old pilgrim paths sometimes beckon to us, teasing us from the routine of workaday lives with promises of spiritual glory and glimmers of the Divine, however we interpret that deeply human need.’
‘But she also appreciates her surroundings and her community, and looks for her place among the sloping streets and workaday routines.’
‘The routine, workaday books that keep rolling off printing machines and that one lives and works with today share very little of that quality, or that sensibility.’
‘Though they share nothing in upbringing, they have already found that they have a workaday attitude to showbiz in common.’
‘But they are vastly outnumbered by packs of a more workaday character.’
‘Then there is the stuff of workaday journalism, rather like an ordinary meal one has to plough through, a chore worthwhile only for whatever nutritional value there may be.’
‘White opened up at a ferocious pace, hitting nicks from all angles, powering balls to the deep court on either hand and slamming in three-wall-nick shots at such regular intervals that it came to look like a common workaday shot.’
‘In those days a whole host of pots could be found in gardens, including long-toms and workaday pots as well as rhubarb and kale-forcing pots, all made from terracotta.’
‘Our fear, guilt, and, occasionally, even jealousy over the way the elderly are separated from workaday reality has led us to think about the ‘golden years’ as something that takes place in another realm.’
‘An affectionate arm around the shoulders, a warm and reassuring hug, a gentle touch upon the arm, even just an understanding glance, are enough to drive away the blues and kindle hope in a heart beset with workaday cares.’
‘Somehow Ludwig seemed to have succeeded in functioning in the mundane, workaday world and still keep a spiritual perspective on matters.’
‘At first glance, shampoo is one of the most functional and workaday elements in your beauty routine.’
‘First, I had yearned to escape the workaday world where I went about my quotidian tasks and routines and travel to an isolated place filled with natural beauty and silence for my writers retreat.’
‘Some people think that the idea of a fairy tale romance is unrealistic, that it sets too high a standard and leaves you feeling disappointed in real-life, workaday relationships.’
‘Smither's patient way of painting

Synonyms

everyday, ordinary, plain, homespun, commonplace, accepted, accomplished, accustomed, actual, applied, average, banal, blah, boiler plate, boring, both feet on the ground, bourgeois, businesslike, careful, casual, characteristic, characterless, chronic, clean, clichÃ©d, colloquial, colorless, comformable, common, commonsensical, concentrated, constant, constructive, conventional, corny, correct, current, customary, cut-and-dried, daily, day-to-day, dead, diddly, diligent, dime a dozen, dime-a-dozen, direct, disciplined, doable, domestic, down-to-earth, drab, dry, dull, earnest, earthly, effective, efficient, empirical, enterprising, expected, expeditious, experimental, factual, fair, familiar, familiar tune, feasible, fixed, flat, frequent, functional, garden, garden variety, garden-variety, general, generic, grind, habitual, hackneyed, handy, hard-boiled, hardworking, ho-hum, homely, household, humble, humdrum, implicit, in action, in operation, indifferent, industrious, inferior, informal, intent, intimate, irksome, known, lackluster, lifeless, literal, lowly, lusterless, mainstream, matter-of- fact, matter-of-course, matter-of-fact, mean, mediocre, methodical, middle-of-the-road, middling, modest, monotonous, mundane, native, natural, no great shakes, normal, nothing, nowhere, nuts and bolts, obvious, old hat, operative, orderly, organized, pabulum, painstaking, passable, pedestrian, per diem, periodic, plastic, platitudinous, plebeian, possible, practicable, practical, practiced, pragmatic, prevailing, prevalent, probable, professional, prosaic, prose, prosy, proverbial, purposeful, quotidian, rational, realistic, reasonable, recognizable, regular, repeated, rife, routine

Antonyms

abnormal, abstruse, alien, aloof, amateur, ambiguous, aristocratic, attractive, atypical, beautiful, breaking, business, cold, complex, complicated, cool, creative, cultured, decorated, different, difficult, disorganized, distant, distinctive, dressed-up, eccentric, embellished, excellent, exceptional, excited, exciting, extraordinary, flippant, foreign, formal, heavenly, hidden, high, ignorant, imaginative, imperceptible, impossible, impractical, incapable, incomprehensible, inconstant, industrial, inefficient, inexperienced, infrequent, intelligent, interesting, intricate, irrational, irregular, new, noble, noteworthy, obscure, obscured, occasional, original, ornate, peculiar, pretty, rare, refined, remarkable, reserved, scarce, smart, sophisticated, special, strange, superior, supernatural, thinking, thoughtless, trivial, unacquainted

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