Mundane
10 definitions retrieved  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.] 1. Of or pertaining to the world; worldly, as contrasted with heavenly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere; mundane concerns. -- Mun"dane*ly, adv. [1913 Webster] The defilement of mundane passions. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 2. Commonplace; ordinary; banal. [PJC]  mundane 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]  mundane context, such as the computer industry or science fiction fandom. The implication is that those in the group are special and those outside are just ordinary. (2000-07-22)  mundane n. [from SF fandom] 1. A person who is not in science fiction fandom. 2. A person who is not in the computer industry. In this sense, most often an adjectival modifier as in "in my mundane life...." See also Real World, muggle.  mundane [mʌndein] irdisch; nüchtern; prosaisch; Welt...; weltlich  mundane evilági földi  mundane prosaisch; nüchtern mundane weltlich; Welt... mundane weltlich; irdisch  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "mundane": 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 Mundane related |
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