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How to pronounce mundane in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms terrene


not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind.
Type Words
Synonyms terrestrial
Derivation mundaneness


mundane affairs.
Type Words
Synonyms everyday, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday
Derivation mundaneness, mundanity

Examples of mundane

mundane
With these mundane materials, O'Casey unleashes a torrent of engulfing emotions.
From the time.com
Old magazines, mundane picture frames and scraps of wood might be trash to many.
From the kansas.com
There is admittedly something mundane, not to say comical, about a sewing robot.
From the newscientist.com
This animated film sequel is a lackluster follow-up to a mundane first offering.
From the fresnobee.com
The hope is to turn what was once a dreadful moment into something more mundane.
From the freep.com
Sharp said rival gangs can brawl over something as mundane as a piece of a cake.
From the sltrib.com
Ultimately, it is Thomas who lifts this film above the mundane and conventional.
From the post-gazette.com
With his dancing, Jackson left behind everything mundane, messy and predictable.
From the washingtonpost.com
Historically chronicled catches to go with all the mundane ones in center field.
From the dallasnews.com
More examples
  • Everyday: 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
  • Concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality"
  • 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"
  • (mundanely) in a worldly manner; "terrestrially changeable"
  • (mundaneness) sophistication: the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
  • (mundaneness) ordinariness: the quality of being commonplace and ordinary
  • In subcultural and fictional uses, a mundane is a person who does not belong to a particular group, according to the members of that group; the implication is that such persons, lacking imagination, are concerned solely with the mundane: the and ordinary. ...
  • (The Mundanes) The Mundanes were an early-1980s Rhode Island-based New Wave band featuring future They Might Be Giants member John Linnell. They released one single called Make it the Same, featuring three songs, "Make it the Same," "Funnier Than Love," and "Empty Boulevards."
  • A person considered to be "normal", not part of the elite group; worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly; Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world; ordinary; not new; tedious; repetitive and boring