Exceptional and Workaday

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Exceptional adjective - Being out of the ordinary.

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Workaday is an antonym for exceptional.

Workaday adjective - Being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events.

Usage example: just a workaday guy living a workaday life

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Exceptional is an antonym for workaday in topics: normal, usual, common, average.

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Workaday and Exceptional. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/exceptional/workaday

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