mundane Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite found in the ordinary course of events
    unremarkable; quotidian; workaday; routine; everyday.
    • 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
  2. adjective satellite concerned with the world or worldly matters
    terrestrial.
    • mundane affairs
    • he developed an immense terrestrial practicality
  3. adjective satellite belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind"
    terrene.
    • not a fairy palace
    • so terrene a being as himself

WordNet

Mun"dane adjective
Etymology
L. mundanus, fr. mundus the world, an implement, toilet adornments, or dress; cf. mundus, a., clean, neat, Skr. ma&nsdot;&dsdot; to adorn, dress, ma&nsdot;&dsdot;a adornment. Cf. Monde, Mound in heraldry.
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to the world; worldly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere. -- Mun"dane*ly, adv.
    The defilement of mundane passions. I. Taylor.

Webster 1913