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workaday

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work·a·day  (wûrk-d)
adj.
1. Relating to or suited for working days; everyday.
2. Mundane; commonplace: "the practical, workaday world, of ... ordinary undistinguished things" Lionel Trilling.

[From Middle English werkeday, workday : werke (alteration of work; see work) + day, day; see day.]

workaday
Adjective
commonplace or ordinary: workaday surroundings
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Adj.1.workadayworkaday - 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
ordinary - not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine"

workaday
adjective ordinary, common, familiar, practical, routine, everyday, commonplace, mundane, prosaic, run-of-the-mill, humdrum, bog-standard Brit., Irish (slang) << OPPOSITE extraordinary


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The atmosphere of precautions and recriminations, and in the midst a human body growing more vivid because it was in pain; the end of that body in Hilton churchyard; the survival of something that suggested hope, vivid in its turn against life's workaday cheerfulness;--all these were lost to Helen, who only felt that a pleasant lady could now be pleasant no longer.
Then people began arriving with petitions, and there came the reports, interviews, appointments, dismissals, apportionment of rewards, pensions, grants, notes, the workaday round, as Alexey Alexandrovitch called it, that always took up so much time.
Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort it is.
 
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