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Definition of Mundane

1. Adjective. Found in the ordinary course of events. "There's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"

2. Adjective. Concerned with the world or worldly matters. "He developed an immense terrestrial practicality"

3. Adjective. Belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly. "So terrene a being as himself"

Definition of Mundane

1. a. Of or pertaining to the world; worldly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere.

Definition of Mundane

1. Adjective. worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly ¹

2. Adjective. Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world. ¹

3. Adjective. ordinary; not new ¹

4. Adjective. tedious; repetitive and boring ¹

5. Noun. (slang derogatory in various subcultures) A person considered to be "normal", not part of the elite group. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mundane

1. ordinary [adj] - See also: ordinary

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mundane

munchausen syndrome by proxy munched muncher munchers munches munchhausen syndrome munchie munchies munching munchings

munchkin munchkins munchnone munchnones mund mundane (current term) mundanely mundaneness mundanenesses mundaner

mundanes mundanest mundanities mundanity mundation mundatory mundborh mundbyrd mundic

Literary usage of Mundane

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"And this appears f-om even the argument which he urges against the patrons of the doctrine of a mundane soul. If the heavens, he says, be a partaker of soul ..."

2. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel (1874)
"»un ; fig. luminary ; — luft,/. mundane (or sensual) pleasure; --mur.n, ... m.ßg. man; —forge,/, mundane care ;—¡lri(b,m. region of the earth or globe, ..."

3. The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura (1906)
"Taoism accepts the mundane as it is and, unlike the Confucians and the Buddhists, tries to find beauty in our world of woe and worry. ..."

4. Handy-book of Rules and Tables for Verifying Dates with the Christian Era by John James Bond (1889)
"The mundane Era, or Era of the Creation of the World. ... but there are as many as one hundred and forty different dates given for the mundane era. ..."

5. Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations: Demonstrating the by Robert Hare (1855)
"Tlie Hymeneal Tie in the Spirit World grows out of the necessity of the Connubial Union in the mundane Sphere. "Free love" imputation refuted.* 1075. ..."

6. The Light of Nature Pursued by Abraham Tucker (1768)
"And they have different mundane particles in the ... The mundane foul read in the characters ... mundane ..."

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