mundane routine
- noun
- /mʌnˈdeɪn ruˈtin/
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rutina mundana
- You know, Carl, what you're saying is so deep when you talk about just kind of waking up to this my, you know, my mundane routine life, man.
- mundane routine of life
And one of the things we've been finding in this research is that the things that make you nostalgic are often, at the time, what you think of as kind of mundane routines.
- And one of the things we've been finding in this research is that the things that make you nostalgic are often, at the time, what you think of as kind of mundane routines.
Examples
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The point is that Henry needs the balance of order and creativity that Whitehead describes if he is to educate himself beyond the limitations of the business office, but he becomes so personally involved with the lure of freedom without limits that he shatters the order he has imposed on the mundane routine of life.
Academic text (1997) -
We can make a conscious decision to focus on the moments of joy and happiness, even in the mundane routines of daily life.
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Many people find comfort in their mundane routine of waking up, making coffee, and going to work each day.
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After months of travel, she was thankful to return to the stability of her mundane routine at home.
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He decided to embrace his mundane routine rather than chase after exciting adventures.
Synonyms
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5.6
A regular way of doing things that becomes hard to change
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1.0
A usual order of things a person does every day
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4.2
A boring, tiring routine of everyday work and chores
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Usual tasks a person does every day
A set of actions done regularly without thinking
Antonyms
How Routine
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an ordinary and unexciting daily pattern' is directly and transparently built from 'mundane' (everyday, dull) modifying 'routine' (habitual schedule). This simple adjective+noun composition follows standard semantics and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words should be able to infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Mundane routine paints a picture of the same small actions repeated every day, like getting up, washing, eating, and going to work. The word mundane points to the ordinary, everyday world and routine is the set order of those actions, so it means 'ordinary and unexciting' daily life.