workaday
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Synonyms & Antonyms for workaday
Synonyms
average, common, commonplace, cut-and-dried (also cut-and-dry), everyday, garden-variety, normal, ordinary, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, standard-issue, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual
Antonyms
abnormal, exceptional, extraordinary, odd, out-of-the-way, strange, unusual
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Many begin as workaday reporters and spend their... — Bryan Burrough, WSJ, "‘The Last Stone’ Review: The Past Isn’t Even Past," 12 Apr. 2019 Gaultier paired the maison’s famous and luxurious leathers with a more workaday material, denim, for his Western-themed Spring 2009 show. — Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue, "Vogue Runway Did a Ten-Year Fashion Challenge: Check Out the Results Here," 30 Jan. 2019 Then there’s the community room, a drab, workaday gathering spot for employees and visitors that inspires few selfies. — Daniel Miller, latimes.com, "Five Picassos went missing from the L.A. Times. What happened to them?," 12 July 2018 Ocean’s 8, directed with workaday flatness by Gary Ross, never revs up an equivalent sort of confidence among its seemingly bountiful ensemble of personalities. — refinery29.com, "No More “But With Women” Remakes. Just Make Better Movies For Women.," 13 June 2018 Ruscha had found his sweet spot: ingeniously redirecting words from the workaday realm of commercial art into the upper stratosphere of art history. — Mark Rozzo, Vanities, "Ed Ruscha Still Has Plenty More to Say About America," 30 May 2018 There’s also something comforting about the workaday world of A Scene at the Sea. — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, "Film / Foreign A Scene at the Sea is an early masterpiece from Takeshi Kitano," 27 Apr. 2018 The driving gimmick is meant to convey a sense of accessible authenticity—someone caught by the camera in a workaday moment. — James Hohmann, Washington Post, "The Daily 202: Why Mark Zuckerberg is embracing more regulation of political ads on Facebook," 10 Apr. 2018 The automaker showed off new versions of its workaday Tuscon and Santa Fe crossovers at NYAS, but the Kona Electric is the clearest view of the way forward. — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, "The Stealth Electric Cars Are Coming," 28 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'workaday.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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