Mundane

Quick meaning: Mundane is an adjective meaning Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.

Meaning

Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.

More Meanings

1. Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world.
2. Ordinary; not new.
3. Tedious; repetitive and boring.
4. An unremarkable, ordinary human being.
5. (derogatory, satanism) A person who is not a Satanist.
6. (fandom slang, as "the mundane") The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

Long famed in fandom, Mr. Bloch skyrocketed to prominence in the mundane when his autobiographical novel, PSYCHO, was made into a hit motion picture.

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.’

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.

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.

Word Forms

• mundaner
• mundanest
• mundanes

Synonyms for mundane

Depending on context, synonyms include mainstreamer, banausic, profane, temporal, worldly, areligious.

Antonyms for mundane

Common opposites include athlete, empath, genius, intellectual, magician, maverick.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include worldly, everyday, workaday, routine, quotidian, ordinary.

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