mundane (redirected from mundanities)

mun·dane  (mn-dn, mndn)

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or typical of this world; secular.

2. Relating to, characteristic of, or concerned with commonplaces; ordinary.

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[Middle English mondeine, from Old French mondain, from Latin mundnus, from mundus, world.]

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mun·danely adv.

mun·daneness, mun·dani·ty (-dn-t) n.

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mundane [ˈmʌndeɪn mʌnˈdeɪn]

adj

1. everyday, ordinary, or banal

2. relating to the world or worldly matters

[from French mondain, via Late Latin, from Latin mundus world]

mundanely  adv

mundanity , mundaneness n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	mundane - 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 everyday, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday ordinary - not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine"
	2.	mundane - concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality" terrestrial worldly, secular, temporal - characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world; "worldly goods and advancement"; "temporal possessions of the church"
	3.	mundane - 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" terrene earthly - of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven; "earthly beings"; "believed that our earthly life is all that matters"; "earthly love"; "our earthly home"

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mundane

adjective

1. ordinary, routine, commonplace, banal, everyday, day-to-day, vanilla (slang), prosaic, humdrum, workaday Be willing to do mundane tasks with good grace.
ordinary interesting, original, novel, exciting, dramatic, unusual, extraordinary, uncommon, ground-breaking, left-field (informal)

2. earthly, worldly, human, material, fleshly, secular, mortal, terrestrial, temporal, sublunary spiritual immortals who had transcended the mundane world
earthly heavenly, spiritual, ethereal, unworldly

Translations

mundane [ˈmʌnˈdeɪn] ADJ (= humdrum) [task] → rutinario; [matter, problem] → trivial; [existence] → prosaico
on a more mundane level → a modo de trivialidad

mundane [ˌmʌnˈdeɪn] adj [task, reality] → banal(e), terre à terre inv

mundane

adj (= worldly) → weltlich, profan; (fig: = everyday) → alltäglich; (pej) (= humdrum) → banal; (= boring) → langweilig

n the mundane → das Alltägliche

mundane [ˌmʌnˈdeɪn] adj (worldly) → di questo mondo (pej) (humdrum) → banale, terra terra inv