Definition for Workaday:

• Pertaining to working- days; every day; hence, prosaic or common.

Synonyms for Workaday:

• adj.

  •businesslike (adjective)
  • earnest,
  • matter-of-fact,
  • concentrated,
  • enterprising,
  • direct,
  • orderly,
  • well-ordered,
  • diligent,
  • industrious,
  • hardworking,
  • serious,
  • painstaking,
  • effective,
  • correct,
  • regular,
  • practiced,
  • expeditious,
  • purposeful,
  • routine,
  • careful,
  • organized,
  • systematic,
  • intent,
  • skillful,
  • matter of fact,
  • accomplished,
  • sedulous,
  • methodical,
  • disciplined,
  • thorough.
  •commonplace (adjective)
  • colorless,
  • normal,
  • threadbare,
  • lowly,
  • vanilla,
  • matter-of-course,
  • widespread,
  • unexceptional,
  • corny,
  • uninteresting,
  • pedestrian,
  • unnoteworthy,
  • middle-of-the-road,
  • starch,
  • uneventful,
  • obvious,
  • mainstream,
  • middling,
  • plebeian.
  •familiar (adjective)
  • humble,
  • intimate,
  • old hat,
  • recognizable,
  • homespun,
  • native,
  • domestic,
  • household,
  • known,
  • unsophisticated,
  • unceremonious,
  • repeated,
  • proverbial.
  •plain (adjective)
  • traditional.
  •practical (adjective)
  • virtual,
  • practicable,
  • rational,
  • possible,
  • sensible,
  • nuts and bolts,
  • serviceable,
  • factual,
  • efficient,
  • handy,
  • implicit,
  • unromantic,
  • constructive,
  • usable,
  • feasible,
  • working,
  • applied,
  • empirical,
  • sober,
  • experimental,
  • reasonable,
  • sane,
  • solid,
  • pragmatic,
  • down-to-earth,
  • operative,
  • utile,
  • sound,
  • utilitarian,
  • hard-boiled,
  • workable,
  • functional,
  • commonsensical.
  •prosaic (adjective)
  • drab,
  • lackluster,
  • matter-of- fact,
  • prosy,
  • diddly,
  • platitudinous,
  • dead,
  • flat,
  • nothing,
  • vapid,
  • pabulum,
  • tame,
  • square,
  • dry,
  • boring,
  • zero,
  • Irksome,
  • clean,
  • literal,
  • actual,
  • yawn,
  • tedious,
  • prose,
  • garden-variety,
  • lifeless,
  • blah.
  •routine (adjective)
  • chronic,
  • periodic.
  •unimaginative (adjective)
  • prosaic.
  •usual (adjective)
  • expected,
  • grind,
  • typic,
  • cut-and-dried,
  • rife,
  • constant,
  • fixed.

• n.

  •
  • good,
  • nondescript.
  •quotidian (noun)
  • quotidian.
  •unremarkable (noun)
  • unremarkable.

• Other synonyms:

  •professional
  • occupational.

Antonyms for Workaday:

• adj.

  • businesslike
    inefficient, flippant, unimportant, unserious, disorganized, thoughtless, trivial, Unbusinesslike, unprofessional, amateur.
  • common
    unorthodox, excellent, exceptional, infrequent, different, valuable, aristocratic, noteworthy, unconventional, sophisticated, original, unusual, refined, cultured, extraordinary, uncommon, superior, peculiar, noble, irregular, unfamiliar, abnormal, high, rare, scarce.
  • everyday
    special, unexpected.
  • familiar
    alien, foreign, strange, business, unfriendly, unremarkable, unknowledgeable, unapproachable, aloof, undistinguished, industrial, unknown, cool, reserved, unacquainted, ignorant, cold, distant, new.
  • mundane
    heavenly, exciting, wonderful, supernatural.
  • ordinary
    ornate, intricate, remarkable, embellished, complex, complicated, distinctive, unclear, difficult, decorated, intelligent.
  • plain
    pretty, obscure, vague, imperceptible, abstruse, ambiguous, hidden, Obscured, beautiful, attractive, incomprehensible.
  • practical
    inexperienced, incapable, unreasonable, untrained, unattainable, unproficient, unseasoned, impossible, unfeasible, unskilled, worthless, unlikely, impractical, unworkable, unrealistic, useless, unserviceable, excited, irrational, unsound.
  • prosaic
    imaginative, creative, thinking, interesting.
  • routine
    eccentric, breaking, variable, untraditional.
  • usual
    inconstant, atypical, unsteady, occasional.
  • Other antonyms:
    unprecedented, sublime, out-of-the-way, smart, uncustomary, funny, untypical, unwonted, offbeat, unparalleled, tidy, neat, wild, aberrant, unexampled, odd, anomalous, stylish, lofty, striking, quirky, oddball, best, far-out, outrageous, outre, phenomenal, singular, prominent, fashionable, fantastic, signal, way out, weird, recherche, nonconformist, curious, salient, idiosyncratic, freakish, wacky, unique, quaint, chic, conspicuous, trim, bizarre, semiformal, outlandish, kooky, notable, screwy, high-minded, outstanding, formal, dressy, freak, dressed-up, elegant, novel.

Workaday Sentence Examples:

• Here am I now, sitting around in my best clothes, and they no better than another man's workaday things.

• But the workaday standard is the wrong one, after all; for the utilitarian mind does but busy itself with the trivial and transitory interests of life, behind which looms the great and everlasting reality of the love of man and woman.