workaday

(wʉrkə dā′)

adjective

  1. of or suitable for working days; everyday
  2. commonplace; ordinary

Origin: ME werkedai < werk, work + -e- (prob. as in sunnedai, Sunday, messeday, “mass day”) + dai, day

See workaday in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective
  1. Relating to or suited for working days; everyday.
  2. Mundane; commonplace: “the practical, workaday world, of … ordinary undistinguished things” (Lionel Trilling).

Origin:

Origin: From Middle English werkeday, workday

Origin: : werke (alteration of work; see work)

Origin: + day, day; see Day 

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