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单词 mundane
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Definition of mundane in English:

mundane

adjective ˈmʌndeɪnmʌnˈdeɪnˌmənˈdeɪn
  • 1Lacking interest or excitement; dull.

    乏味的;平淡无奇的;单调的

    his mundane, humdrum existence

    寻求一条摆脱他单调乏味生活的路。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The truth is far more mundane and less interesting than the story might suggest.
    • But underneath all the excitement lurk the mundane pressures of the daily grind.
    • Her conversation was mundane and her interests narrow.
    • We all joked about the mundane and unexciting routines which the majority of us shared with girlfriends and wives.
    • Coupled with the fact that the main thrust of all the stuff I've done lately is repetitive, mundane, monotonous data entry.
    • One of the strangest things that happens to you when you are raising a toddler is how the normally mundane things get you incredibly excited.
    • It is has been really relaxing and all the mundane hassles of normal day-to-day life seem a million miles away.
    • I apologize to any readers who spent valuable minutes reading limitless minutiae about my mundane existence.
    • But its in the execution and delivery that these common themes are saved from becoming mundane and boring.
    • She has the happy knack of making the most mundane report appear interesting.
    • Stacked ahead of me are the dull and mundane tasks that'd bore anyone with an IQ higher than their pants size.
    • In fact, it's almost easy to not read beyond her almost lyrical prose that makes the most mundane of everyday routines fascinating.
    • The next day was as boring, mundane, unexciting, humdrum, dull, tedious, uneventful and monotonous as usual.
    • We put fancy, bubbly skins on the dull and mundane and think that we're making it all more interesting.
    • Those acronyms, some might say, are designed to add a hint of excitement to an otherwise mundane and dull industry.
    • Brands that stand out here take an otherwise ordinary and mundane activity and make it more interesting and engaging.
    • They just wanted to see something exciting happen, something to break up the mundane humdrum of everyday life.
    • It is also full of the mundane, the pedestrian and the downright dull and ugly.
    • Just as today, in the past a great deal of rubbish was generated by the mundane activities of everyday existence.
    • It overlooks the mundane reality of everyday policing, which is often boring, messy, petty, trivial and venal.
    Synonyms
    humdrum, dull, boring, tedious, monotonous, tiresome, wearisome, prosaic, unexciting, uninteresting, uneventful, unvarying, unvaried, unremarkable, repetitive, repetitious, routine, ordinary, everyday, day-to-day, quotidian, run-of-the-mill, commonplace, common, workaday, usual, pedestrian, customary, regular, normal
    unimaginative, banal, hackneyed, trite, stale, platitudinous
    informal typical, vanilla, plain vanilla, hacky
    rare banausic
  • 2Of this earthly world rather than a heavenly or spiritual one.

    尘世的;世俗的

    according to the Shinto doctrine, spirits of the dead can act upon the mundane world
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In three separate films, he finds the meditational and spiritual in relatively mundane images.
    • Such seemingly spiritual forms are sometimes offset by the depiction of something mundane.
    • The book's grand aims are filtered through his muddled mind, which has the unfortunate effect of making his spiritual quest seem mundane.
    • Such power can be put to use for achieving mundane objectives or spiritual advancement.
    • Because God is in everything and everyone, the most mundane activity is regarded as a spiritual activity.
    • The focus is on trees that have served as mediators between mundane human life and spiritual or ancestral realms.
    • The Japanese elevated the mundane practice of drinking tea to a spiritual discipline.
    • An interest in mundane evil can also be found in retellings of more traditional stories.
    • Monks, nomads and family members needed attention - spiritual, medical and mundane.
    • The other major technique used to maintain a view of the sacred and the spiritual is to reframe the mundane in spiritual terms.
    • It's your own world where the mundane things of life are relegated to the background while spirited things take over.
    • Jewish spirituality comes through grappling with the mundane world in a way that uplifts and elevates.
    • The diary juxtaposes the profound and the mundane, rather like life itself.
    • Again, this is in an effort to help the people of the tribe live in accord with spiritual and mundane realities.
    • True transcendentalists have no interest in mundane material life.
    • Sitting by a river meditating is nice, but real spirituality comes from making the mundane sacred.
    • In relating to the activities in life, whether spiritual or mundane, their sense of workability disappears, and they face a state of bleakness.
    • To increase the dosage of awe and joy in daily life, transform the mundane into something more spiritual.
    Synonyms
    earthly, worldly, terrestrial, material, temporal, secular, non-spiritual, fleshly, carnal, sensual
    rare sublunary
    1. 2.1 Relating to or denoting the branch of astrology that deals with the prediction of earthly events.
      (与)世俗占星术(有关)的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Its influence was always dreaded in mundane astrology, being unfavorable to the farmer's work.
      • The lowest branch of mundane, kings and potentates, is but a short step from natal astrology.
      • Every indication is negative for peace as far as mundane astrology is concerned.
      • The second is mundane astrology, concerning the rise and fall of kingdoms, battles, revolutions, etc.

Derivatives

  • mundanely

  • adverb ˈmʌndeɪnlimʌnˈdeɪnliˌmənˈdeɪnli
    • Consequently, Irish immigrant correspondence was filled primarily with information that was, for its authors and recipients, vitally important but which often appears to contemporary scholars as mundanely personal or familial.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • More mundanely, not all those who would ‘pass’ have access to the same level of resources or conversely, the same capacity to deflect scrutiny.
      • There was a great deal of variation, ranging from the mundanely technical to the anguished plea for understanding and cooperation.
      • More mundanely, they're cooks, cleaners, drivers, a pair of willing hands and the biggest fan their child will ever have.
      • More mundanely, by reducing the weight, recoil, and the upper-body strength required to use infantry weapons effectively, technology has made it possible for women to participate in combat on an equal footing with men.
  • mundaneness

  • noun mʌnˈdeɪnnəsˈmʌndeɪnnəsˌmənˈdeɪnnɪs
    • I just hope the technique won't be perceived as overkill given the mundaneness of the subject matter.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This public housing gives its residents privacy and a quiet, ennobling form of living space that accommodates its urban setting without succumbing to its mass, dehumanizing mundaneness.
      • The tinsel town rolled out the red carpet, promising not just money and fame, but an opportunity to break free from mundaneness that defines the middle class.
      • For, as the producer states: ‘You see why people are attracted to each other, why people fall in love, why people fall out of love, why you get sucked into the mundaneness of a relationship after a long time.’
      • The whole idea of a ‘soap opera’ suggests an overt incongruity between the daily mundaneness of the narrative and the lofty form it takes.
  • mundanity

  • nounPlural mundanities mʌnˈdanɪti
    • Seeking a publisher in the 1950s, Gorey met with a lot of rejection, editors seemingly unable to find humour in his gothic tales of disturbed and disrupted mundanity, his drawings of gnarled creatures lurking in moonlit landscapes.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Any company that advertises itself as ‘fun’ is simply making a desperate and futile attempt to distract attention away from the soul-destroying mundanity that is the reality of its day-to-day life.
      • And I love the fun of being able to dream out loud, and to create worlds into which your readers can escape from mundanity, refresh themselves, and maybe bring back with them to the ‘real’ world.
      • For some people, alcohol appears to be a form of escapism from the mundanity of everyday life or a way of allowing themselves to relax in company (with our anti-social/unsocialised nature that's no surprise).
      • I'm considering writing a song called 21: 22 Monday Evening, which would certainly cover frustration and mundanity, though thankfully would be pretty light on heartbreak.

Origin

Late Middle English (in sense 2): from Old French mondain, from late Latin mundanus, from Latin mundus 'world'. sense 1 dates from the late 19th century.

Rhymes

abstain, appertain, arcane, arraign, ascertain, attain, Bahrain, bane, blain, brain, Braine, Cain, Caine, campaign, cane, cinquain, chain, champagne, champaign, Champlain, Charmaine, chicane, chow mein, cocaine, Coleraine, Coltrane, complain, constrain, contain, crane, Dane, deign, demesne, demi-mondaine, detain, disdain, domain, domaine, drain, Duane, Dwane, Elaine, entertain, entrain, explain, fain, fane, feign, gain, Germaine, germane, grain, humane, Hussein, inane, Jain, Jane, Jermaine, Kane, La Fontaine, lain, lane, legerdemain, Lorraine, main, Maine, maintain, mane, mise en scène, Montaigne, moraine, obtain, ordain, Paine, pane, pertain, plain, plane, Port-of-Spain, profane, rain, Raine, refrain, reign, rein, retain, romaine, sane, Seine, Shane, Sinn Fein, skein, slain, Spain, Spillane, sprain, stain, strain, sustain, swain, terrain, thane, train, twain, Ujjain, Ukraine, underlain, urbane, vain, vane, vein, Verlaine, vicereine, wain, wane, Wayne

Definition of mundane in US English:

mundane

adjectiveˌmənˈdānˌmənˈdeɪn
  • 1Lacking interest or excitement; dull.

    乏味的;平淡无奇的;单调的

    seeking a way out of his mundane, humdrum existence

    寻求一条摆脱他单调乏味生活的路。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I apologize to any readers who spent valuable minutes reading limitless minutiae about my mundane existence.
    • Stacked ahead of me are the dull and mundane tasks that'd bore anyone with an IQ higher than their pants size.
    • Brands that stand out here take an otherwise ordinary and mundane activity and make it more interesting and engaging.
    • In fact, it's almost easy to not read beyond her almost lyrical prose that makes the most mundane of everyday routines fascinating.
    • The next day was as boring, mundane, unexciting, humdrum, dull, tedious, uneventful and monotonous as usual.
    • It is also full of the mundane, the pedestrian and the downright dull and ugly.
    • We put fancy, bubbly skins on the dull and mundane and think that we're making it all more interesting.
    • But its in the execution and delivery that these common themes are saved from becoming mundane and boring.
    • It overlooks the mundane reality of everyday policing, which is often boring, messy, petty, trivial and venal.
    • Just as today, in the past a great deal of rubbish was generated by the mundane activities of everyday existence.
    • We all joked about the mundane and unexciting routines which the majority of us shared with girlfriends and wives.
    • Those acronyms, some might say, are designed to add a hint of excitement to an otherwise mundane and dull industry.
    • Her conversation was mundane and her interests narrow.
    • Coupled with the fact that the main thrust of all the stuff I've done lately is repetitive, mundane, monotonous data entry.
    • They just wanted to see something exciting happen, something to break up the mundane humdrum of everyday life.
    • The truth is far more mundane and less interesting than the story might suggest.
    • She has the happy knack of making the most mundane report appear interesting.
    • One of the strangest things that happens to you when you are raising a toddler is how the normally mundane things get you incredibly excited.
    • But underneath all the excitement lurk the mundane pressures of the daily grind.
    • It is has been really relaxing and all the mundane hassles of normal day-to-day life seem a million miles away.
    Synonyms
    humdrum, dull, boring, tedious, monotonous, tiresome, wearisome, prosaic, unexciting, uninteresting, uneventful, unvarying, unvaried, unremarkable, repetitive, repetitious, routine, ordinary, everyday, day-to-day, quotidian, run-of-the-mill, commonplace, common, workaday, usual, pedestrian, customary, regular, normal
  • 2Of this earthly world rather than a heavenly or spiritual one.

    尘世的;世俗的

    the boundaries of the mundane world
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Such power can be put to use for achieving mundane objectives or spiritual advancement.
    • In three separate films, he finds the meditational and spiritual in relatively mundane images.
    • In relating to the activities in life, whether spiritual or mundane, their sense of workability disappears, and they face a state of bleakness.
    • Monks, nomads and family members needed attention - spiritual, medical and mundane.
    • The book's grand aims are filtered through his muddled mind, which has the unfortunate effect of making his spiritual quest seem mundane.
    • True transcendentalists have no interest in mundane material life.
    • To increase the dosage of awe and joy in daily life, transform the mundane into something more spiritual.
    • The focus is on trees that have served as mediators between mundane human life and spiritual or ancestral realms.
    • The Japanese elevated the mundane practice of drinking tea to a spiritual discipline.
    • Sitting by a river meditating is nice, but real spirituality comes from making the mundane sacred.
    • Jewish spirituality comes through grappling with the mundane world in a way that uplifts and elevates.
    • An interest in mundane evil can also be found in retellings of more traditional stories.
    • Again, this is in an effort to help the people of the tribe live in accord with spiritual and mundane realities.
    • The other major technique used to maintain a view of the sacred and the spiritual is to reframe the mundane in spiritual terms.
    • Such seemingly spiritual forms are sometimes offset by the depiction of something mundane.
    • It's your own world where the mundane things of life are relegated to the background while spirited things take over.
    • Because God is in everything and everyone, the most mundane activity is regarded as a spiritual activity.
    • The diary juxtaposes the profound and the mundane, rather like life itself.
    Synonyms
    earthly, worldly, terrestrial, material, temporal, secular, non-spiritual, fleshly, carnal, sensual
    1. 2.1 Relating to or denoting the branch of astrology that deals with political, social, economic, and geophysical events and processes.
      (与)世俗占星术(有关)的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The second is mundane astrology, concerning the rise and fall of kingdoms, battles, revolutions, etc.
      • The lowest branch of mundane, kings and potentates, is but a short step from natal astrology.
      • Its influence was always dreaded in mundane astrology, being unfavorable to the farmer's work.
      • Every indication is negative for peace as far as mundane astrology is concerned.

Origin

Late Middle English (in mundane (sense 2)): from Old French mondain, from late Latin mundanus, from Latin mundus ‘world’. mundane (sense 1) dates from the late 19th century.

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