mundane

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mundane - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

mundane - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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,
             mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable,
             workaday]
      2: concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane
         affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality"
         [syn: mundane, 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: mundane, terrene]

mundane - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  mundane
  
     <jargon> 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)
  

mundane - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.
  

mundane - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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