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Mundane definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MUN'DANE, a. [L.mundanus, from mundus, the world.]
Belonging to the world; as mundane sphere; mundane space.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant [syn: everyday, mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday]
2: concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality" [syn: mundane, terrestrial]
3: belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly; "not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind"; "so terrene a being as himself" [syn: mundane, terrene]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English mondeyne, from Anglo-French mundain, from Late Latin mundanus, from Latin mundus world Date: 15th century 1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the world 2. characterized by the practical, transitory, and ordinary ; commonplace <the mundane concerns of day-to-day life> Synonyms: see earthly • mundanely adverb • mundaneness noun • mundanity noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 dull, routine. 2 of this world; worldly. Derivatives: mundanely adv. mundaneness n. mundanity n. (pl. -ies). Etymology: ME f. OF mondain f. LL mundanus f. L mundus world

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mundane Mun"dane, a. [L. mundanus, fr. mundus the world, an implement, toilet adornments, or dress; cf. mundus, a., clean, neat, Skr. ma[.n][dsdot] to adorn, dress, ma[.n][dsdot]a adornment. Cf. Monde, Mound in heraldry.] Of or pertaining to the world; worldly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere. -- Mun"dane*ly, adv. The defilement of mundane passions. --I. Taylor.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something that is mundane is very ordinary and not at all interesting or unusual. Be willing to do even mundane tasks. ...the mundane realities of life. = boring ADJ • You can refer to mundane things as the mundane. It's an attitude that turns the mundane into something rather more interesting and exciting. N-SING: the N

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Earthly, terrene, terrestrial, terraqueous, worldly, sublunary, under the sun, secular, temporal.

Moby Thesaurus

Philistine, animal, arid, banausic, barren, carnal, carnal-minded, common, commonplace, dry, dull, earthbound, earthly, earthy, everyday, flat, fleshly, humdrum, infecund, infertile, insipid, literal, lowly, material, materialistic, matter-of-fact, nonsacred, ordinary, pedestrian, plain, poetryless, profane, prosaic, prosing, prosy, reprobate, secular, sensual, staid, stolid, stuffy, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, tiresome, unblessed, unembellished, unfanciful, unhallowed, unholy, unideal, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninspired, uninventive, unoriginal, unpoetic, unregenerate, unromantic, unromanticized, unsacred, unsanctified, unspiritual, vapid, workaday, workday, worldly