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MUNDANE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mundane mean?
• MUNDANE (adjective)
The adjective MUNDANE has 3 senses:
1. found in the ordinary course of events
2. concerned with the world or worldly matters
3. belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly
Familiarity information: MUNDANE used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Found in the ordinary course of events
Synonyms:
everyday; mundane; quotidian; routine; unremarkable; workaday
Context example:
there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
Similar:
ordinary (not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree)
Derivation:
mundaneness; mundanity (the quality of being commonplace and ordinary)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Concerned with the world or worldly matters
Synonyms:
mundane; terrestrial
Context example:
he developed an immense terrestrial practicality
Similar:
secular; temporal; worldly (characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world)
Derivation:
mundaneness (the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly
Synonyms:
mundane; terrene
Context example:
so terrene a being as himself
Similar:
earthly (of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven)
Context examples
Keep this near your heart—as he spoke he lifted a little silver crucifix and held it out to me, I being nearest to him—put these flowers round your neck—here he handed to me a wreath of withered garlic blossoms—for other enemies more mundane, this revolver and this knife; and for aid in all, these so small electric lamps, which you can fasten to your breast; and for all, and above all at the last, this, which we must not desecrate needless.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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