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Definition

ordinary or lacking interest or excitement — possibly to the point of being boring

or more rarely:

belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly

I'm going to have to spend all of Saturday running errands and doing mundane chores.

mundane = ordinary — possibly boring

Her art fascinates us with mundane objects by blowing them out of proportion.

mundane = ordinary (uninteresting)

Broaden your minds, my dears, and allow your eyes to see past the mundane!
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

mundane = ordinary

One particular July day began like any other mundane day, in my now slave-like existence.
Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It

mundane = ordinary or lacking interest or excitement

The question was so mundane I had to laugh. A headache? Did I have a headache? I was living a nightmare inside a nightmare.
Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna

mundane = ordinary

there weren't many obstacles you could skate around on the ground floor except the kitchen table, and that got mundane after awhile.
Paul Zindel -- The Pigman

mundane = old (lacking in interest or excitement)

This is a time when the veil between the mundane world and the strange and beautiful realms of the Goddess become[s] thin indeed.
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked

mundane = belonging to this earth or world—not a heavenly world

Does this sound horribly mundane?
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Winter Dreams

mundane = uninteresting (too ordinary to discuss)

They were there, or would be there, because of the simple, mundane things Eddie had done in his life,
Mitch Albom -- The Five People You Meet in Heaven

mundane = ordinary

The talk turns mundane at times, with complaints of low pay, hard hours, bratty children.
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help

mundane = ordinary (lacking interest or excitement)

...rising above mundane, towering over ordinary.
Ellen Hopkins -- Glass

mundane = ordinary (lacking interest or excitement)

He wore his most mundane clothes—jeans, a white shirt, and a dark jacket over them.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass

mundane = ordinary; or belonging to our ordinary world

No mundane doctor would know how to heal those wounds.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones

mundane = ordinary; or belonging to our ordinary world

The distinction between the poor teachings of mundane science and our sacred all-embracing teaching is clear to me.
Tolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
Even in the upper and damp region I procured very few, excepting some minute Diptera and Hymenoptera, mostly of common mundane forms.
Darwin, Charles -- The Voyage of the Beagle
It is a very mundane word which I had allowed to escape me.
Dumas, Alexandre -- Ten Years Later
Photographers do this for a living, every single day — they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
Ward Jenkins
"Ass" was evidently the word, and the angel retired, smiling with mundane satisfaction over the compliment that reached her ears.
Alcott, Louisa May -- Eight Cousins
Oh, yes, wicked, I own, as everything mundane is.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Man in the Iron Mask
not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind

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