mundane

Meaning

Adj

1. Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.
2. Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world.
3. Ordinary; not new.
4. Tedious; repetitive and boring.

Noun

1. An unremarkable, ordinary human being.
2. (slang) A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group.
3. A person who is not a Satanist.
4. (slang) The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.

Synonyms

worldly

earthly

secular

temporal

everyday

workaday

terrestrial

daily

quotidian

routine

unremarkable

earthy

ordinary

commonplace

terrene

unsurprising

cosmic

planetary

secularistic

stock

sublunar

sublunary

transmigratory

trite

unconsecrated

unenlivened

unexciting

unimaginative

unlovable

unoriginal

unprepossessing

wordly

standard

worldy

average

conventional

customary

cut-and-dried

cut-and-dry

devoid

earthbound

human

insubstantial

laic

lay

meaningless

no great shakes

normal

of this world

pedestrian

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mʌnˈdeɪn/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: mondeyne

Cognate with Danish: mondæn

In summary

From Middle English mondeyne, from Old French mondain, from Late Latin mundanus, from Latin mundus (“world”). Compare Danish mondæn.