mundane
/'mʌndein/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Ordinary, commonplace, or typical: Describes something that is part of the usual, everyday world, lacking excitement or special qualities.
- Relating to the physical world, as opposed to spiritual or heavenly concerns: Describes things that are earthly, worldly, or secular.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- His job involved many mundane tasks like filing and answering emails.
- She longed for adventure to escape her mundane routine.
- Philosophers sometimes contrast spiritual enlightenment with mundane desires.
Advanced Usage
- "the mundane world": the ordinary, physical world we live in.
- The monk sought to transcend the mundane world through meditation.
- "mundane reality": the ordinary, sometimes boring, facts of everyday life.
- After the holiday, they had to return to mundane reality.
Variants and Related Words
- Mundanely (adverb): in a mundane manner.
- The day passed mundanely, with nothing out of the ordinary.
- Mundaneness (noun): the quality of being mundane.
- He complained about the mundaneness of his daily commute.
Synonyms
- Ordinary
- Everyday
- Commonplace
- Routine
- Terrestrial (when emphasizing the earthly aspect)
- Worldly (when emphasizing secular matters)
Antonyms
- Extraordinary
- Exceptional
- Heavenly
- Spiritual
- Exotic
Related Phrases
- Mundane affairs: the ordinary business or concerns of daily life.
- He was tired of dealing with mundane affairs and wanted to discuss bigger ideas.
Adjective
- belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind"
- not a fairy palace
- so terrene a being as himself
- concerned with the world or worldly matters
- mundane affairs
- he developed an immense terrestrial practicality
- 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