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mundane

[muhn-deyn, muhn-deyn]

adjective

  1. common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative.

  2. of or relating to this world or earth as contrasted with heaven; worldly; earthly.

    mundane affairs.

    Synonyms: ,
  3. of or relating to the world, universe, or earth.



mundane

/ ˈmʌndeɪn, mʌnˈdeɪn /

adjective

  1. everyday, ordinary, or banal

  2. relating to the world or worldly matters

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Other Word Forms

  • mundanely adverb
  • mundaneness noun
  • ܲˈ岹Ծٲ noun
  • ˈܲԻ岹Ա adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mundane1

First recorded in 1425–75; from Latin ܲԻԳܲ, equivalent to mund(us) “world” + -Գܲ -ane; replacing late Middle English mondeyne, from Middle French mondain, from Latin, as above
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mundane1

C15: from French mondain, via Late Latin, from Latin mundus world
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Synonym Study

See earthly.
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Example Sentences

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Criticism of AI on the right ranges from relatively mundane concerns over AI’s potential ability to defame to warnings that AI has a role to play in the end times.

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Picking up her father’s remains from a Massachusetts funeral home, Carrie begins her journey through the mundane bureaucracy of grief.

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Her cadre of worshippers assigns to her a mystical power to transform lives, but the truth is mundane.

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Like the film’s central conceit, it’s about making magic out of the mundane.

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I, for one, have more arcane and mundane concerns.

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