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mundane 音標拼音: [mənd'en] a. 現世的,世俗的,宇宙的 現世的,世俗的,宇宙的 mundane adj 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"- Anita Diamant [ synonym: { everyday}, { mundane}, { quotidian}, { routine}, { unremarkable}, { workaday}] 2: concerned with the world or worldly matters; " mundane affairs"; " he developed an immense terrestrial practicality" [ synonym: { mundane}, { terrestrial}] 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" [ synonym: { mundane}, { terrene}] Mundane \ Mun" dane\, a. [ L. mundanus, fr. mundus the world, an implement, toilet adornments, or dress; cf. mundus, a., clean, neat, Skr. ma[. n][ dsdot] to adorn, dress, ma[. n][ dsdot] a adornment. Cf. { Monde}, { Mound} in heraldry.] 1. Of or pertaining to the world; worldly, as contrasted with { heavenly}; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere; mundane concerns. -- { Mun" dane* ly}, adv. [ 1913 Webster] The defilement of mundane passions. -- I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Commonplace; ordinary; banal. [ PJC] 70 Moby Thesaurus words for " mundane": Philistine, animal, arid, banausic, barren, carnal, carnal- minded, common, commonplace, dry, dull, earthbound, earthly, earthy, everyday, flat, fleshly, humdrum, infecund, infertile, insipid, literal, lowly, material, materialistic, matter- of- fact, nonsacred, ordinary, pedestrian, plain, poetryless, profane, prosaic, prosing, prosy, reprobate, secular, sensual, staid, stolid, stuffy, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, tiresome, unblessed, unembellished, unfanciful, unhallowed, unholy, unideal, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninspired, uninventive, unoriginal, unpoetic, unregenerate, unromantic, unromanticized, unsacred, unsanctified, unspiritual, vapid, workaday, workday, worldly |
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