workaday

Anglais

Étymologie

 Composé de work, a et day.

Adjectif

workaday

1. Ordinaire, de tous les jours.
   • He was just an ordinary person living a workaday life.
   • A retreat, my dear boys, signifies a withdrawal for a while from the cares of our life, the cares of this workaday world, in order to examine the state of our conscience, to reflect on the mysteries of holy religion and to understand better why we are here in this world., Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, Macmillan Press Ltd, 1916, paperback, p. 102: