Adjective
mundane (comparative mundaner, superlative mundanest)
- Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.
- Synonym: worldly
- Antonyms: heavenly, arcane
- Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
- Amongst mundane bodies, six there are that do perpetually move, and they are the six Planets; of the rest, that is, of the Earth, Sun, and fixed Stars, it is disputable which of them moveth, and which stands still.
- Ordinary; not new.
- Synonyms: banal, boring, commonplace, everyday, routine, workaday, jejune, pedestrian; see also Thesaurus:boring, Thesaurus:common
- Tedious; repetitive and boring.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:boring
Translations
worldly
- Armenian: երկրային (erkrayin), երկրավոր (hy) (erkravor), աշխարհիկ (hy) (ašxarhik)
- Bulgarian: светски (bg) (svetski)
- Catalan: mundà
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 世俗 (zh) (shìsú)
- Czech: pozemský (cs) m
- Dutch: aards (nl)
- Esperanto: monda (eo)
- Estonian: maine (et)
- Finnish: maallinen (fi)
- French: profane (fr) m or f, mondain (fr) m, mondaine (fr) f
- Georgian: მიწიერი (mic̣ieri), ამქვეყნიური (amkveq̇niuri)
- German: weltlich (de)
- Greek: κοσμικός (el) m (kosmikós), γήινος (el) m (gíinos)
- Hungarian: evilági (hu), földi (hu)
- Irish: domhanda
- Norwegian: verdslig
- Persian: دنیوی (fa) (donyavi)
- Plautdietsch: weltlich
- Portuguese: mundano (pt)
- Romanian: lumesc (ro)
- Russian: земно́й (ru) (zemnój)
- Scottish Gaelic: saoghalta
- Spanish: mundano (es), profano (es), terrenal (es), material (es), mundanal
- Swedish: världslig (sv)
- Turkish: dünyevi (tr)
- Ukrainian: земни́й (zemnýj)
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ordinary
- Armenian: ճղճիմ (hy) (čġčim), հասարակ (hy) (hasarak), սովորական (hy) (sovorakan)
- Bulgarian: обикновен (bg) (obiknoven)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 平常 (zh) (píngcháng), 平庸 (zh) (píngyōng), 平凡 (zh) (píngfán)
- Czech: obyčejný (cs) m, obvyklý (cs) m, všední (cs), přízemní (cs)
- Dutch: gewoon (nl), alledaags (nl)
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: tavaline
- Finnish: tavanomainen (fi), tavallinen (fi)
- French: ordinaire (fr) m or f
- Georgian: ჩვეულებრივი (čveulebrivi), უბრალო (ubralo)
- German: alltäglich (de), ordinär (de)
- Greek: πεζός (el) m (pezós), κοινότοπος (el) m (koinótopos)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: hétköznapi (hu)
- Ingrian: jokapäiväin
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: usitatus m
- Norwegian: alminnelig (no), repeterende
- Ottoman Turkish: بیاغی (bayağı)
- Polish: przyziemny (pl), zwyczajny (pl) m
- Russian: обыкнове́нный (ru) (obyknovénnyj)
- Spanish: prosaico (es), banal (es), trivial (es), rutinario (es), vulgar (es), monótono (es)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: basmakalıp (tr), bayağı (tr), harcıâlem (tr), olağan (tr), sıradan (tr)
- Ukrainian: звичайний (zvyčajnyj)
- Vietnamese: bình thường (vi)
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tedious
- Armenian: անհետաքրքիր (hy) (anhetakʻrkʻir), միապաղաղ (hy) (miapaġaġ), միօրինակ (hy) (miōrinak)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 枯燥 (zh) (kūzào), 單調/单调 (zh) (dāndiào)
- Czech: nudný (cs) m, jednotvárný (cs) m, úmorný m, otravný (cs) m
- Dutch: afgezaagd (nl)
- Esperanto: seninteresa, neinteresa
- Finnish: ikävä (fi), tylsä (fi)
- French: ordinaire (fr) m or f, ennuyeux (fr) m, ennuyeuse (fr) f
- Georgian: მოსაწყენი (mosac̣q̇eni), დამღლელი (damɣleli)
- German: nervtötend
- Greek: άχαρος (el) m (ácharos)
- Norwegian: kjedelig (no)
- Russian: ску́чный (ru) (skúčnyj)
- Spanish: mundano (es)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: can sıkıcı (tr), tekdüze (tr), yeknesak (tr)
- Ukrainian: нудни́й (nudnýj)
- Uzbek: zerikarli (uz)
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Noun
mundane (plural mundanes)
- An unremarkable, ordinary human being.
- (slang, derogatory, in various subcultures) A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group.
1959 December 1, Ron Bennett, Skyrack, number 10:THE LIVERPOOL PARTY at Pat and Frank Milnes’ celebrated both the Gunpowder Plot and the Liverpool Club’s 400th and something meeting. Two mundane and non-fan friends of the hosts - women, too - played brag all night and Norman Weedall disappeared at 3 a.m.
1989 Spring, Lawrence Person, “Fear and Loathing in New Orleans: A Savage Journey Into the Heart of American Fandom”, in Nova Express, volume 2, number 3 (whole number #7), page 10:The Demon Barber and I played Shock the Mundanes. The door would open up and we would start a sentence in mid-imaginary conversation, like—‘Of course, they never found the body.’
1996, Angel of Death, “furries vs. mundanes”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):Some people just think your [sic] a sicko or something for enjoying the art. I know that alot [sic] of the time, I would rather see some nice nude furrygirls instead of pictures of nude mundanes.
- (derogatory, satanism) A person who is not a Satanist.
- (fandom slang, as "the mundane") The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.
1966 November, Lee Hoffman, “Our Authors”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 4, page 35:Long famed in fandom, Mr. Bloch skyrocketed to prominence in the mundane when his autobiographical novel, PSYCHO, was made into a hit motion picture.
See also
- mundane on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Article on the use of “mundane” as a derogatory term.