'Mundane' definitions:
Definition of 'mundane'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
Concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality" [syn: mundane, terrestrial]
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Mundane'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'mundane'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Philistine,
- 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