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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]: mundaneSomeone 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)
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