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 Definitions for mundane: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Mundane \Mun"dane\, a. [L. mundanus, fr. mundus the world, an
implement, toilet adornments, or dress; cf. mundus, a.,
clean, neat, Skr. ma[.n][dsdot] to adorn, dress,
ma[.n][dsdot]a adornment. Cf. Monde, Mound in heraldry.]
1. Of or pertaining to the world; worldly, as contrasted with
heavenly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere;
mundane concerns. -- {Mun"dane*ly}, adv.
[1913 Webster]
The defilement of mundane passions. --I. Taylor.
[1913 Webster]
2. Commonplace; ordinary; banal.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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mundane
adj 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 [syn: everyday, quotidian,
routine, unremarkable, workaday]
2: concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane
affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial
practicality" [syn: terrestrial]
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" [syn: terrene]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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70 Moby Thesaurus words for "mundane":
Philistine, animal, arid, banausic, barren, carnal, carnal-minded,
common, commonplace, dry, dull, earthbound, earthly, earthy,
everyday, flat, fleshly, humdrum, infecund, infertile, insipid,
literal, lowly, material, materialistic, matter-of-fact, nonsacred,
ordinary, pedestrian, plain, poetryless, profane, prosaic, prosing,
prosy, reprobate, secular, sensual, staid, stolid, stuffy,
tellurian, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, tiresome,
unblessed, unembellished, unfanciful, unhallowed, unholy, unideal,
unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninspired,
uninventive, unoriginal, unpoetic, unregenerate, unromantic,
unromanticized, unsacred, unsanctified, unspiritual, vapid,
workaday, workday, worldly
Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
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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.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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mundane
Someone outside some group that is implicit from the
context, such as the computer industry or science fiction
fandom. The implication is that those in the group are
special and those outside are just ordinary.
(2000-07-22)
Related SitesMundane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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mundane - Wiktionary
most mundane. worldly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly. ordinary; not new ... Retrieved from "http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mundane" ...
mundane: Definition, Synonyms from Answers.com
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mundane - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Definition of mundane from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games.
Journal of Mundane Behavior
An interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of everyday life.
Mundane science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ian McDonald's reaction to the mundane SF manifesto ... Response To The Mundane Manifesto ... ( The editor much prefers the term 'Wellsian' over 'mundane' ...
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