mundane
80
4.3
- adjective
- /mʌnˈdeɪn/
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cotidiano
- I find joy in the mundane tasks of my daily routine.
- more mundane
- mundane activities
- mundane and everyday
Do you mind if I ask you some mundane questions?
- Do you mind if I ask you some mundane questions?
- It's the boring, mundane, daily little things.
- I've gone on to have mundane lives with mundane jobs and they're miserable.
- You say that my life was just mundane enough that I didn't make a change.
- It was the most boring, mundane, safe bet season ever.
- I know that sounds kind of mundane, but that turns out to be true.
- And so when I look at that, I think that whatever my mundane complaints are kind of pointless.
- Do you have any mundane celebrity stories?
- That's the, that's the mundane theory behind it.
- It is a constantly emerging and mundane thing.
- And, and sometimes there's something really mundane about it or just clumsy.
- So most of our thoughts are actually kind of mundane or imprisoning.
Examples
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It can be pretty mundane at times.
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There was no reason he should have been privy to such a mundane housekeeping concern.
Fiction book (1990) -
Do you mind if I ask you some mundane questions?
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I said like the small mundane things are the big things.
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We are heading out to somewhere pretty mundane to do something exciting.
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But... this mundane everyday life ends today.
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Even to enjoy the mundane things of life, you need consciousness.
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At first, these items may seem mundane, but many have a fascinating story.
Academic text (1990) -
The novel opens with the main narrator relating seemingly mundane events from his childhood.
Academic text (2017) -
In the end, everything out there will be mundane, as secular and uninteresting as this cave.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
683
1.0
Normal and not special or unusual
276
1.0
Ordinary clothes or things used in daily life, not for special occasions
263
1.0
Happening as a usual part of daily life
182
1.3
Not interesting or lively
54
3.4
Ordinary and not special or new
43
2.2
Ordinary and not very interesting
20
3.5
Being ordinary and not interesting
15
2.7
Simple and plain without anything special or expensive
9
6.5
Not exciting and having little variety
8
7.9
Ordinary and dull without imagination or excitement
3
5.3
Ordinary and not special in everyday life
3
8.2
Common events or things that happen every day
1
3.4
Not very impressive or special
Ordinary and not special, like a simple jacket you can buy anywhere
Ordinary and not special
Antonyms
Compounds
How Ordinary
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mundane comes from the Latin mundus meaning 'world', so it originally meant 'of the world' rather than spiritual. That's why mundane now describes ordinary, everyday things that are not special or spiritual.