English Explanatory Dictionary

mundane

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  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.
noun
  1. An unremarkable, ordinary human being.
  2. A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group.
  3. A person who is not a Satanist.
  4. The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.

Pronunciation

/mʌnˈdeɪn/ /mən-/ [mʌnˈdeɪn] En-us-mundane.ogg [mɐnˈdeɪn] [mʌnˈdɛjn] [mʌnˈdeːn] [mʊn-] [mɐnˈdæɪn]

Word forms

mundane mundaner mundanest mundanes

Etymology

From Middle English mondeyne, from Old French mondain, from Late Latin mundānus, from Latin mundus (“world”). Compare Danish mondæn. (ordinary): Compare typologically Russian несусве́тный (nesusvétnyj) (<~ не- (ne-) + (rare) сусве́тный (susvétnyj) < свет (svet)).

Synonyms

profane temporal worldly areligious civil earthly irreligious laicist laicistic mundane nonreligious secular unconsecrated unsanctified banal boring commonplace everyday routine workaday jejune pedestrian basic beat blah bland cold colourless corny drab stuffy dreich drowsy dull dull as dishwater flat heavy going ho-hum humdrum insipid lackluster lame languid lifeless longsome monotonous no fun at parties plain plodding prosaic prosy pedantic static straightforward snoozeworthy soporific tedious uncool wan weaksauce

Antonyms

heavenly arcane athlete empath genius intellectual mad scientist magician maverick medium oracle polymath prodigy psychic strange person superhuman

Related words

mundane on Wikipedia. Article on the use of as a derogatory term.

Derived words

antemundane circummundane extramundane inframundane intermundane intramundane mundania mundanism mundie nonmundane submundane supermundane supramundane transmundane ultramundane unmundane mundanely mundaneness mundanity
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