Mundane

Definition: Mundane

Mundane

Adjective

1. 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.

2. Concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality".

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".

Date "mundane" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Mundane \Mun"dane\, adjective. [Latin expression mundanus, from mundus the world, an implement, toilet adornments, or dress; compare to mundus, adjective, clean, neat, Sanskrit ma[.n][dsdot] to adorn, dress, ma[.n][dsdot]a adornment. Compare to Monde, Mound in heraldry.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Computing	Mundane n. [from SF fandom] 1. A person who is not in science fiction fandom. 2. A person who is not in the computer industry. In this sense, most often an adjectival modifier as in "in my mundane life...." See also Real World, muggle. Source: Jargon File.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Mundane

Synonyms: everyday (adj), quotidian (adj), routine (adj), terrene (adj), terrestrial (adj), unremarkable (adj), workaday (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Irreligion	Worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal; worldly; minded.
Selfishness	Unspiritual, earthly, earthly-minded; mundane; worldly, worldly-minded; worldly-wise; timeserving.
World	Adjective: cosmic, cosmical; mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious, terraqueous, terrene, terreous, telluric, earthly, geotic, under the sun; sublunary, subastral.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Mundane

English words defined with "mundane": majestic, mundanely ♦ Olympian ♦ Subsolary ♦ terrene ♦ unworldly. (references)

Specialty definitions using "mundane": go-devil ♦ Laputa ♦ Mundane Egg ♦ Nidhogg ♦ priority interrupt. (references)

Etymologies containing "mundane": Ultramundane. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You mundane noodle! (A Christmas Story; writing credit: Leigh Brown; Bob Clark)
Lyrics	Seem less mundane (Telling Stories; performing artist: Tracy Chapman)
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Domain	Title
Books	Astrology Mundane and Spiritual (1933) Vol. 1 (reference) SCIENCE, TOOLS AND MAGIC: Part One: Body and Spirit, Mapping the Universe. Part Two: Mundane Worlds (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL XII) (reference) Somewhere Between Kindergarten and God: Mini-Memoirs About the Mundane and the Mystical (reference) The Mundane Matter of the Mental Language (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) (reference) The Mundane Mystic (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Mundane [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference) Mundane Existence (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Industrial robots, in particular, were drawing attention as a core part of this new production system and as a means of reducing the need for workers to perform mundane tasks while, at the same time, improving efficiency and reducing labor costs. (references)
		Therefore, many firms have turned to the use of industrial robots for their toughest or most mundane work. With this in mind, Japanese companies have allocated money on research and development towards the development of robots with a visual function, the ability to use "hands," and actuators with high weight capacity. (references)
Economic History	Sri Lanka	Problems range from the mundane but critical matter of clearing equipment and supplies through customs speedily to getting land for factories, as well as transport of finished export products from out-station factories (internal flights are prohibited by security constraints and road transport is slow, extremely bumpy, and often hazardous). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Mundane" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mundane" is used about 444 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	444	13,042

Expression using "mundane": mundane astrology. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "mundane": extra-mundane.
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Language		Translations for "mundane"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i zakonshëm (accustomed, common, common or garden, commonplace, consuetudinary, current, customary, daily, day to day, everyday, familiar, general, habitual, homely, natural, normal, ordinary, ready made, regular, routine, second best, standard, usual, vulgar, wonted, workaday), i rëndomtë (banal, base, coarse, common, commonplace, copybook, corny, everyday, habitual, hackneyed, homely, ordinary, plain, platitudinous, prose, prosy, second rate, substandard, trite, vulgar), i përditshëm (daily, day to day, diurnal, everyday, ferial, homely, ordinary, quotidian), i kësaj bote (earthly, temporal, terrestrial, worldly). (various references)

Arabic		‏ممل (boring, dreary, dull, humdrum, irksome, iterative, monotonous, ponderous, slow, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, uninteresting, vapid, weariful, wearisome, weary), ‏عادي (average, banal, classless, common, commonplace, conventional, household, lay, mean, medial, mediocre, middling, natural, normal, ordinary, plain, plebeian, poor, prosaic, run of the mill, second rate, simple, some, stock, trivial, unexceptional, wont), ‏أرضي (earthen, earthly, terrestrial), ‏دنيوي (earthly, laity, material, materialistic, secular, temporal, terrestrial, worldly). (various references)

Bulgarian		светски (earthbound, earthly, fashionable, fleshly, laic, lay, material, profane, secular, smart, social, society, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, unclerical, world, worldly), шаблонен (conventional, hackneyed, routine, stereotyped, stereotypical, stock), обикновен (accustomed, average, common, commonplace, everyday, familiar, frequent, homely, humdrum, low, matter of fact, mere, moderate, ordinary, plain, quiet, regular, routine, run of the mill, simple, trite, trivial, unaffected, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual, wonted), земен (earthbound, earthly, earthy, ground, land, material, planetary, subastral, sublunary, tellurian, terrain, terraneous, terrene, worldly), досаден (aggravating, annoying, boring, bothersome, importunate, intrusive, irksome, irritating, lengthy, long winded, monotonous, obtrusive, officious, pain in the neck, painful, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, plaguesome, plaguy, ponderous, prolix, provoking, tedious, tiresome, tiring, vexatious, weariful, wearisome, weary). (various references)

Chinese		世俗 (secular, temporal). (various references)

Czech		svìtský (profane, secular, temporal). (various references)

Farsi		خاکی (Dun, Earthborn, Earthen, Earthly, Earthy, Terrestrial, Worldly), این جهانی (Terrestrial, Worldly), دنیوی (Earthy, Secular, Terrestrial, Worldly). (various references)

Finnish		maallinen (earthly, secular, temporal), ajallinen (temporal). (various references)

French		terrestre, quelconque, laïque, banal. (various references)

German		weltlich (earthly, profane, profanely, secular, secularly, temporal, terrestrial, worldlily, worldly), irdisch (earthen, earthly, planetary, terrestrial, terrestrially). (various references)

Greek		κοσμικόσ (cosmic, laic, lay, secular, secularistic, temporal, worldly), εγκόσμιοσ (worldly). (various references)

Hebrew		משעמם (boring, drab, dry, dull, humdrum, logy, monotonous, tedious, tiresome, uneventful), עולמי (catholic, eternal, global, universal, wordly, world wide), ארצי (earthly, material, terrestrial, territorial), �'שמי (bodily, corporeal, earthly, material, physical, worldly). (various references)

Hungarian		földi (countryman, countrymen, earthen, earthly, earthy, fellow countryman, ground, planetary, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terrestrial, wordly, worldly), evilági (planetary, wordly, worldly). (various references)

Italian		mondano (earthly, society, worldly), banale (banal, common, commonplace, corny, dismal, hackneyed, platitudinous, prosy, trite, trivial). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		有り触れた (commonplace, trite, unsurprising). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ありふれた (commonplace, trite, unsurprising). (various references)

Manx		seihlltagh (earthly, materialistic, profane, secular, terrestrial, worldly). (various references)

Pig Latin		undanemay

Portuguese		mundano (carnal, earthly, temporal, terrestrial, worldly, worldly-minded), terrestre (earthen, earthly, earthy, land, overland, planetary, sublunary, terraneous, terrene, terrestrial), terreno (building sit, glebe, ground, grounds, soil, terrene, terrestrial, worldly), cósmico (cosmic). (various references)

Romanian		terestru (earthly, terrestrial, worldly), pãmântesc (carnal, earth-bound, earthly, earthy, worldly), lumesc (bodily, earth-bound, earthly, earthy, fleshly, profane, secular, temporal, worldly). (various references)

Russian		светский (lay, profane, secular), мирской (laic, profane, worldly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zemaljski (earthborn, earthly, tellurian, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, worldly), svakodnevni (daily, day to day, everyday, ordinary, quotidian). (various references)

Spanish		mundano (earthly, fashionable, profanely, secular, socialite, society person, swinger, worldly), vulgar (commonplace, crude, gaudy, humdrum, loud, ordinary, ornery, pedestrian, tacky, unladylike, vernacular, vulgar, vulgarian), trivial (banal, commonplace, dismal, fiddling, footling, piffling, platitudinous, sapless, trite, trivial). (various references)

Swedish		världslig (earthly, fleshly, laic, secular, worldly). (various references)

Thai		เกี่ยวกับโลก. (various references)

Turkish		olağan (common, commonplace, everyday, mediocre, ordinary, regular, run-off-the-mill, usual), dünyevi (carnal, earth-born, earthly, earthy, fleshly, secular, temporal, worldly), dünyasal (secular, terrestrial, worldly). (various references)

Ukrainian		світський (fashionable, genteel, laic, laical, lay, profane, secular, social, terrestrial), космічний (cosmic, space, spatial, spheral), земний (earthborn, earthbound, earthen, earthly, natural, planetary, subcelestial, sublunar, sublunary, terrain, terrestrial, worldly). (various references)

Vietnamese		trần tục (profane, subsolar, world), thế tục. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	mundanus. (various references)
Avestan	200-600	gaêthîm. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "mundane": mundanely, mundaneness, mundanenesses, mundanes. (additional references)
	Words ending with "mundane": extramundane. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mundane" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: audane, Huancane, Maidanek, Majdanek, Manbane, Mandani, Mejdani, menadione, Mendana, Mendine, minyanim, mondaine, mondane, Mondino, Mondlane, montanum, mordane, mudane, Muidzade, muinane, mundain, mundance, mundaner, Mundee, Munden, Mundia, Mundie, mundine, mundune, Munyanesa. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "mundane" (pronounced mundā"n)
3	-d ā" n	disdain, ordain, preordain.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: unnamed.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-n-n-u"
	-1 letter: duenna, manned, unmade.
	-2 letters: admen, amend, dunam, maned, maund, menad, named, numen, unman.
	-3 letters: amen, dame, damn, dean, duma, dune, made, mane, maud, maun, mead, mean, mend, menu, name, nema, neum, nude, unde.
	-4 letters: amu, and, ane, dam, den, due, dun, eau, emu, end, mad, mae, man, med, men, mud, mun, nae, nam, nan.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-n-n-u"
	+1 letter: mundanes, unmanned.
	+2 letters: fundament, mundanely, outmanned, unamended, unmanaged.
	+3 letters: fundaments, husbandmen, laundrymen, maundering, unexamined, unhandsome, unlamented, unmannered.
	+4 letters: adjournment, antependium, countermand, edutainment, fundamental, multimanned, mundaneness, mundanities, pandemonium, quadrennium, undemanding, undermanned, unmagnified.
	+5 letters: adjournments, antependiums, countermands, dehumanizing, edutainments, extramundane, fundamentals, mountainside, mountebanked, nonautomated, pandemoniums, quadrenniums, undergarment, underlayment, underpayment, ungerminated, unhandsomely, unmanneredly, unmechanized, unmyelinated, unornamented.
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