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Mundane Common

Mundane has 5 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

An unremarkable, ordinary human being.

"The detective was skeptical of the mundane witness who claimed he saw nothing unusual on that rainy evening."

Adjective
1

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"

2

concerned with the world or worldly matters

"mundane affairs"

"he developed an immense terrestrial practicality"

3

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"

4

Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.

"The priest dismissed the mundane concerns of taxes and bills before turning his sermon toward divine matters."

Example Sentences
"a placid everyday scene" adjective
"it was a routine day" adjective
"there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute" adjective
"mundane affairs" adjective
"he developed an immense terrestrial practicality" adjective
"not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind" adjective
"so terrene a being as himself" adjective
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Rhyming Words
ane bane pane vane nane zane cane jane rane sane dane fane wane lane tane mane brane amane jeane ruane
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