Sundayishadj.
/ˈsʌndeɪɪʃ/, /ˈsʌndɪɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈsənˌdeɪɪʃ/, /ˈsəndiɪʃ/ Characteristic or reminiscent of Sunday, esp. quiet, slow, languorous.
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society > leisure > [adjective]
easyc1385
leisurable1607
vacant1615
leisured1631
leisure1669
sauntry1732
Sundayish1797
sauntering1818
toilless1848
off-duty1851
Sundayfied1899
non-work1922
spare-time1931
non-job1932
1797 R. Gurney in A. J. C. Hare Gurneys of Earlham (1895) I. 70 [The day] was flat, stupid, unimproving, and Sundayish.
1895 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 814/1 My mood was less Sundayish than before, and in spite of the heat I ventured across an open pasture,—where a Bachman's finch was singing an ingenious set of variations.
1911 W. W. Jacobs Ship's Company 1 Mr. Jobson awoke with a Sundayish feeling, probably due to the fact that it was Bank Holiday.
1998 A. Martin Bilton iv. 38 Bilton inhabited a thin, falling-down terraced house next to an expanse of spooky scrubland in a grimy part of East London... There was a dismal Sunday-ish feel about the place.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1797