mundane
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- ordinary, banal, commonplace, day-to-day, everyday, humdrum, prosaic, routine, workaday
- earthly, mortal, secular, temporal, terrestrial, worldly

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Antonyms: eternal
Related Words: profane, secular, temporal, animal, carnal, fleshly

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English Thesaurus: boring, not very interesting, dull, tedious, monotonous, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

mun‧dane /mʌnˈdeɪn/ adjective
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: French; Origin: mondain, from Latin mundus 'world']

1. ordinary and not interesting or exciting Synonym : boring:
Initially, the work was pretty mundane.
The mundane task of setting the table can be fun on holidays.

2. literary concerned with ordinary daily life rather than religious matters Synonym : worldly

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

mundane
adj.
VERBS be, seem, sound | become | find sth I found the job very mundane
ADV. very | thoroughly, utterly | fairly, pretty, rather, somewhat a rather mundane task
apparently

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

boring not interesting in any way:
a boring speech
He found school incredibly boring.
not very interesting [not before noun] very ordinary and therefore rather boring. People often use this phrase in everyday English, instead of saying directly that something is boring:
The story wasn’t very interesting.
dull especially written boring:
The conference was usually a dull affair.
Life was never dull.
tedious /ˈtiːdiəs/ very boring and continuing for a long time:
The process was tedious and slow.
Jake began the tedious task of sorting through his papers.
monotonous /məˈnɒtənəs $ məˈnɑː-/ boring and always the same:
The work was monotonous and unchallenging.
He was only half listening to the monotonous voice of the teacher.
mundane /mʌnˈdeɪn/ rather boring, because it is connected with things you do regularly as part of your daily life:
He busied himself with the mundane task of cleaning the house.
Most arguments are over mundane issues like spending or saving money.
humdrum /ˈhʌmdrʌm/ [usually before noun] boring because nothing new or interesting ever happens:
He wanted to escape his humdrum life.
a humdrum existence
dry a subject, piece of writing etc that is dry is boring because it is very serious and does not contain any humour:
The students complained that the lecture was dry and uninspiring.
a dry academic volume

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