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mundane
CIDE DICTIONARY
mundane, a. [L. mundanus, fr. mundus the world, an implement, toilet adornments, or dress; cf. mundus, a., clean, neat, Skr. ma to adorn, dress, ma adornment. Cf. Monde, Mound in heraldry.].
- Of or pertaining to the world; worldly, as contrasted with
heavenly ; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere; mundane concerns. [1913 Webster]"The defilement of mundane passions." [1913 Webster] - Commonplace; ordinary; banal. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mundane, adj.
1 dull, routine.
2 of this world; worldly.
1 dull, routine.
2 of this world; worldly.
Derivative
mundanely adv. mundaneness n. mundanity n. (pl. -ies).
Etymology
ME f. OF mondain f. LL mundanus f. L mundus world
THESAURUS
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, worldlyROGET THESAURUS
mundane
Irreligion
N irreligion, indevotion, godlessness, ungodliness, laxity, quietism, skepticism, doubt, unbelief, disbelief, incredulity, incredulousness, want of faith, want of belief, pyrrhonism, bout, agnosticism, atheism, deism, hylotheism, materialism, positivism, nihilism, infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity, rationalism, neology, atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist, giaour, heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene, espri fort, freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist, materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist, theophobist, irreligious, indevout, undevout, devoutless, godless, graceless, ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed, atheistic, without God, skeptical, freethinking, unbelieving, unconverted, incredulous, faithless, lacking faith, deistical, unchristian, antichristian, worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal, worldly minded, irreligiously.Selfishness
N selfishness, self-love, self-indulgence, self-worship, self-interest, egotism, egoism, amour propre, nepotism, worldliness, world wisdom, illiberality, meanness, time-pleaser, time-server, tuft- hunter, fortune-hunter, jobber, worldling, egotist, egoist, monopolist, nepotist, dog in the manger, charity that begins at home, canis in praesepi, foes to nobleness, temporizer, trimmer, selfish, self-seeking, self-indulgent, self-interested, self- centered, wrapped up in self, wrapt up in self, centered in self, egotistic, egotistical, egoistical, illiberal, mean, ungenerous, narrow-minded, mercenary, venal, covetous, unspiritual, earthly, earthly-minded, mundane, worldly, worldly- minded, worldly-wise, timeserving, interested, alieni appetens sui profusus, ungenerously, to gain some private ends, from interested motives, apres nous le deluge.World
N world, creation, nature, universe, earth, globe, wide world, cosmos, kosmos, terraqueous globe, sphere, macrocosm, megacosm, music of the spheres, heavens, sky, welkin, empyrean, starry cope, starry heaven, starry host, firmament, Midgard, supersensible regions, varuna, vault of heaven, canopy of heaven, celestial spaces, heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids, nebulae, galaxy, milky way, galactic circle, via lactea, ame no kawa, sun, orb of day, Apollo, Phoebus, photosphere, chromosphere, solar system, planet, planetoid, comet, satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen, aerolite, meteor, planetary ring, falling star, shooting star, meteorite, uranolite, constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt, Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades, colures, equator, ecliptic, orbit, astronomy, uranography, uranology, cosmology, cosmography, cosmogony, eidouranion, orrery, geodesy, star gazing, star gazer, astronomer, observatory, planetarium, cosmic, cosmical, mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious, terraqueous, terrene, terreous, telluric, earthly, geotic, under the sun, sublunary, subastral, solar, heliacal, lunar, celestial, heavenly, sphery, starry, stellar, sidereal, sideral, astral, nebular, uranic, in all creation, on the face of the globe, here below, under the sun, die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht, earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice o, green calm below, blue quietness above, hanging in a golden chain this pendant World, nothing in nature is unbeautiful, silently as a dream the fabric rose, some touch of nature's genial glow, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, through knowledge we behold the World's creation.For further exploring for "mundane" in Webster Dictionary Online
