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单词 mundane
释义
mundane
adjective
uk
/mʌnˈdeɪn/us
/mʌnˈdeɪn/
C1
veryordinaryandthereforenotinteresting:
世俗的；单调的；平凡的
Mundanematterssuch aspayingbillsandshoppingforfooddo notinteresther.她对付账单、购买食品等琐事不感兴趣。
Synonyms
quotidianformal
unremarkable
workaday
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
being part of normal life and not special
  • ordinaryHe took ordinary household objects and transformed them into pieces of art.
  • everydayComputers are now just a part of everyday life.
  • quotidianWe longed for the quotidian rituals, like shopping and tea, that the end of the war would bring.
  • day-to-dayDay-to-day operations of the team would be handled by the assistant coach.
  • dailyI'm looking for a good daily shampoo that won't damage my hair.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Plain and ordinary
  • as it comesidiom
  • austere
  • austerely
  • austerity
  • average Joe
  • generalized
  • homeliness
  • homely
  • homespun
  • homey
  • run-of-the-mill
  • severe
  • severely
  • simple
  • something/nothing to shout aboutidiom
  • unoriginal
  • unostentatiously
  • unremarkable
  • well trodden
  • workaday
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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Tedious and uninspiring
(Definition ofmundanefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

mundane| American Dictionary

mundane
adjective
us
/mʌnˈdeɪn,ˈmʌn·deɪn/
ordinaryand notinterestingin any way:
The show was just another mundanefamilysitcom.
(Definition ofmundanefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmundane

mundane
No call to care, finally, could be toomundane; what could be more ordinary than peeling an egg?
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What remains is a combination of the wondrous andmundane.
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Three different points will be addressed here, beginning with themundane(material) and methodological, and concluding with the 'sublime' or theoretical.
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Resolving othermundaneissues is currently a matter of sheer tedium.
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This is a shame, especially when it leads to overly-literal accounts of songs rendered in a rathermundanereported speech.
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The first was a product of frustration with themundanequality of the policy debate in the mid 1980s.
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It also hails a very specific, liberating nonsense meant to deliver readers from the stultifying order of themundane.
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Some of these strategies are reflected in the material markers of elite culture; others are signaled through moremundanepatterns.
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When conversation has turned too serious or discordant, men introduce stories that are humorous or concern rathermundanebehaviors and activities.
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But they are the same properties thatmundanenon-divine things possess, to a lesser degree.
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So far, people'smundane, ' this world ', and secularist perspectives on life after death have been highlighted, perhaps to excess.
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However, many narrators wrote only reluctantly, suspecting that their life stories were toomundaneto be of any interest to anybody.
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The materials from non-elite contexts are ordinary andmundane, yet they clearly served the same functions as their elite analogs.
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But those tendencies themselves are informed by themundanebeliefs that ordinary speakers have about law.
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In other words, these systems separate caloric value from cultural meaning: animals are eithermundaneor metaphoric.
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