Mundane

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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)