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Synonyms for mundane

Most common

ordinary everyday workaday humdrum worldly earthly

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

2. Worldly — worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly

worldly, earthly, secular, temporal, profane, unsanctified

Other

non-magical, terrestrial, terrene, banausic formal, terraqueous formal dated

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

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

  2. adj. 2

    Ordinary; not new; part of the mainstream culture.

Related words

Word family
mundania mundanely mundaneness mundanity
Is a kind of
person

Example sentences

  • everyday I have no time to listen to such everyday affairs.
  • ordinary Leonid is just an ordinary man without experience.
  • humdrum I'm tired of this humdrum existence.
  • worldly Dmitri found himself inside another-worldly house.
  • earthly There is no earthly reason for me to dislike her.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
mundanerising
everydayrising
ordinaryfalling
humdrumsteady
workadaysteady
worldlyrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
dull1
5 letters
plain1, banal2, vapid2
6 letters
common2, boring2, vulgar2
7 letters
typical3, routine2, secular3, tedious3, worldly2, earthly2, profane2, prosaic3, insipid3, humdrum2, terrene
8 letters
everyday3, ordinary4, temporal3, workaday3, banausic
9 letters
quotidian
11 letters
terrestrial4, commonplace3, terraqueous
12 letters
unremarkable5, unsanctified
13 letters
unexceptional

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (banal2 = 2 syllables).