mundane
Plural: mundanes
Adjective Satellite
- found in the ordinary course of events; ; ; - Anita Diamant
- concerned with the world or worldly matters
- "mundane affairs"
- belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly
- "not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind"
Adj
- Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.
- Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world.
- Ordinary; not new.
- Tedious; repetitive and boring.
Noun
- An unremarkable, ordinary human being.
- A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group.
- A person who is not a Satanist.
- The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.
Adjective
- Lacking excitement or distinction; ordinary.
Examples
- While the word was mundane, its placement on a triple word score was anything but.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English mondeyne, from Old French mondain, from Late Latin mundanus, from Latin mundus (“world”). Compare Danish mondæn.
Synonyms
everyday, quotidian, routine, terrene, terrestrial, unremarkable, workaday, average, banal, banausic, basic, beat, blah, bland, bog standard, boring, cold, colourless, common, common as bums, common as muck, common or garden variety, common-or-garden, commonplace, conventional, dime a dozen, drab, dreich, drowsy, dull, dull as dishwater, familiar, flat, garden variety, general, ho-hum, humdrum, insipid, jejune, lackluster, lame, languid, lifeless, longsome, mainstreamer, monotonous, mundane, no fun at parties, nonrare, normal, par for the course, pedantic, pedestrian, plain, plain Jane, plain vanilla, plodding, prosaic, prosy, regular, routinary, run-of-the-mill, snoozeworthy, soporific, standard, standard issue, static, stodgy, straightforward, tedious, ten a penny, two a penny, typical, uncool, uninteresting, usual, vanilla, vapid, wan, weaksauce, wooden, worldly
Antonyms
arcane, athlete, empath, genius, heavenly, intellectual, mad scientist, magician, medium, oracle, polymath, prodigy, psychic, superhuman
Scrabble Score: 10
mundane: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmundane: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mundane: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary