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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mundane
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mundane chores (=ordinary and uninteresting)
▪ the mundane chores of everyday life
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ Their priorities would have been quite different - more mundane, more limited in scope, more pragmatic.
▪ Clinton arrived, of course with a more mundane ambition than his grand Republican predecessor.
▪ The truth was both more mundane and more bizarre.
▪ Perhaps more mundane thoughts went through her mind.
▪ It is a continuous attitude which influences much more mundane, everyday decisions.
▪ The second reason is more mundane.
▪ There are more mundane explanations, as we have suggested earlier.
▪ Truth, it seems, is more mundane.
most
▪ These memories can pop up at any time and transform even the most mundane occasion into something special.
▪ With all due respect to February, it can be one of the most mundane months of the sports year.
▪ Even the most mundane materials could have value.
▪ Let's take talk at what many would consider its most mundane level: social chit-chat.
■ NOUN
matter
▪ Yet they put this knowledge to good advantage, both officially and in more mundane matters.
▪ According to testimony, Rosen was recorded without his knowledge while talking with a female client about mundane matters.
▪ The first type tend to be over more mundane matters, with the third being the more serious.
▪ The conversation passed effortlessly from mundane matters to philosophy, spirituality, politics, art.
▪ Yet I see the mundane matter of the script quite clearly.
task
▪ Even such mundane tasks as eating or drinking have found a place in some ballets.
▪ The objects we use to do these mundane tasks each day reveal the inner secrets of domestic life.
▪ We tidied up our rooms and cleaned the kitchens, dragging out the mundane tasks so that we could stay in the warm.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Most of the law cases he deals with are pretty mundane.
▪ My initial job was pretty mundane, but later I was given more responsibility.
▪ The mundane task of setting the table can be fun at holidays.
▪ The play is about the mundane existence of factory workers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As narrow and mundane as the questions may sound, they ultimately form the basis for modern society.
▪ Catherine required the daily challenge of mundane improvisation.
▪ Even such mundane tasks as eating or drinking have found a place in some ballets.
▪ He seemed unable to distinguish the exceptional from the mundane, the historic from the pedestrian.
▪ Honeysett's cartoons reflect the mundane uses that an ill-educated public might put new technology to.
▪ Shepard ranges from monumental issues to mundane daily operations.
▪ Shrugging off her bag, she forced her mind on to more mundane things.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mundane

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.

    The defilement of mundane passions.
    --I. Taylor.

  2. Commonplace; ordinary; banal.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mundane

mid-15c., "of this world," from Old French mondain "of this world, worldly, earthly, secular;" also "pure, clean; noble, generous" (12c.), from Late Latin mundanus "belonging to the world" (as distinct from the Church), in classical Latin "a citizen of the world, cosmopolite," from mundus "universe, world," literally "clean, elegant"; used as a translation of Greek khosmos (see cosmos) in its Pythagorean sense of "the physical universe" (the original sense of the Greek word was "orderly arrangement"). Latin mundus also was used of a woman's "ornaments, dress," and is related to the adjective mundus "clean, elegant" (used of women's dress, etc.). Related: Mundanely. The mundane era was the chronology that began with the supposed epoch of the Creation (famously reckoned as 4004 B.C.E.).

Wiktionary
mundane

a. 1 worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly 2 Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world. 3 ordinary; not new 4 tedious; repetitive and boring n. 1 An unremarkable, ordinary human being. 2 (context slang derogatory in various subcultures English) A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group.

WordNet
mundane
  1. adj. 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, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday]

  2. concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality" [syn: 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: terrene]

Wikipedia
Mundane

In subcultural and fictional uses, a mundane is a person who does not belong to a particular group, according to the members of that group; the implication is that such persons, lacking imagination, are concerned solely with the mundane: the quotidian and ordinary. The term first came into use in science fiction fandom to refer, sometimes deprecatingly, to non-fans; this use of the term antedates 1955.

Mundane (disambiguation)

Mundane is a science fiction subculture term.

Mundane may also refer to:

  • Carri Mundane, an English fashion designer
  • Journal of Mundane Behavior, a sociological journal devoted to everyday experience.
  • Mundane astrology, the application of astrology to world affairs and world events
  • Mundane Egg, a creation myth in various ancient cultures
  • Mundane reason, a philosophical concept
  • Mundane science fiction, a subgenre of science fiction

Usage examples of "mundane".

A concept introduced into the culture, like the Anachronists, to allow a mundane society some practice in the idea of shifting worlds and cultures?

The Liringlas mother sings the song she has chosen through the course of each day, through mundane events, in quiet moments when she is alone, before each morning aubade, after each evening vesper.

I had to reach you, before the Mundanes get to the baobab tree and wipe out all the bottled spells or use them against us!

Often the entries are mundane, ranging from recipes and auto-repair tips to lamentations over the blogger s love life.

I am well aware that the gold taken off Bonanza possesses special properties, the loss of which no amount of mundane silver and gold can make good.

After watching Adam and the dolphins together, I was convinced that they were communicating in some method indiscernible to my mundane senses, the way the Bunraku puppeteers had communicated with me while I was pregnant.

The northern constellation Draco, whose sinuosities wind like a river through the wintry bear, was made the astronomical cincture of the Universe, as the serpent encircles the mundane egg in Egyptian hieroglyphics.

He had learned weeks ago that when he was barred from doing anything to help Dinah, he had to keep himself busy with mundane activities.

The mundane offering of the Collect was done by means of electronic funds transfers, from the eft tokens all bore with them when visiting Virtu.

In spite of the bright, grainy, mundane light of morning, which is support to chase all fancies away and dissolve all troubling fantasms, the ball was still frozen there in midair, motionless, exactly the same way it had been the night before.

The priest imagined busloads of pilgrims bent on divinely inspired chastisements and evangelical devotional fever, hailing the advent of Mother Mary, saluting a cardboard ephemeral church, Ann as substitute for authentic worship, for the mundane daily variety of faith that composed his own enervated ministry.

The room was dark, lit only by entirely mundane lanterns, for Kermis was worried that any use of the Art Magickal would interfere with the delicate operation of the Art Khemitic.

Remember my 2 percent rule and you will be among those who are ultimately written about as major success stories: 98 percent of the marketing you see, hear and perceive is mundane, mediocre and boring.

Other men cut leather shapes from hides stretched on the ground, braided thongs into ropes, worked with bronze chisel and adze and stone scraper on the growing frame of a chariot, knapped stone into everyday tools for tasks too mundane to rate the precious bronze.

As Deiley continued his reading, he became convinced that the main piece in this 300-year-old puzzle was not the gifted professor but the riped woman who gratefully and efficiently went about her mundane domestic duties.