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mundane

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom/[mɐnˈdeɪn]/
  • United Kingdom/[mʌnˈdɛjn]/
  • United States/[mʌnˈdeɪn]/
  • //mʌnˈdeɪn//
  • //mən-//

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

adjective

  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world.

    Amongst mundane bodies, six there are that do perpetually move, and they are the six Planets; of the rest, that is, of the Earth, Sun, and fixed Stars, it is disputable which of them moveth, and which stands still.

  3. 3

    Ordinary; not new; part of the mainstream culture.

    THE LIVERPOOL PARTY at Pat and Frank Milnes’ celebrated both the Gunpowder Plot and the Liverpool Club’s 400th and something meeting. Two mundane and non-fan friends of the hosts - women, too - played brag all night and Norman Weedall disappeared at 3 a.m.

  4. 4

    Tedious; repetitive and boring.

  5. 5

    Non-magical; without supernatural powers or properties.

    The classic magical potion has been overshadowed by a number of mundane items, but still has its purposes as a quick one time consumable item.

    Using magical water and magical plaster resulted in a magically saturated plaster that automatically cured at a rate comparable to mundane water and mundane plaster.

    The number of types of mana changes as men and fae explore the limits of mundane stuff and magic, getting smaller or larger as the theories change.

Etymology

From Middle English mondeyne, from Old French mondain, from Late Latin mundānus, from Latin mundus (“world”). Compare Danish mondæn. (ordinary): Compare typologically Russian несусве́тный (nesusvétnyj) (<~ не- (ne-) + (rare) сусве́тный (susvétnyj) < свет (svet)).

noun

  1. 1

    An unremarkable, ordinary human being.

  2. 2

    slangA person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group.

    The Demon Barber and I played Shock the Mundanes. The door would open up and we would start a sentence in mid-imaginary conversation, like—‘Of course, they never found the body.’

    Some people just think your ^([sic]) a sicko or something for enjoying the art. I know that alot ^([sic]) of the time, I would rather see some nice nude furrygirls instead of pictures of nude mundanes.

    "A guy dressed up as Pikachu called me a freak," complained one boys' love fan at Seattle's 2006 Sakura-Con. "To the mundanes, everyone at this con is a freak, but we're pariahs even to the other freaks."

  3. 3

    A person who is not a Satanist.

  4. 4

    slangThe world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.

    Long famed in fandom, Mr. Bloch skyrocketed to prominence in the mundane when his autobiographical novel, PSYCHO, was made into a hit motion picture.

  5. 5

    A person with no magical or supernatural powers or properties.

    The mundane world is the world you know. It is the world from which, new Nephilim, you have come, and its people, the mundanes, are the people you knew and the people you yourself were, until recently when you were changed.

    “Well, I can't help but wonder: are we wizards fighting like mundanes, or mundanes who happen to have a few wizard tools to call on?” asked Dusty.

    “The rest of the complex on the coast is for the mundanes.” “Mundanes?”, queried Peter. “You know, the ordinary folk, like us”, Varak replied.

Forms

plural
mundanes
comparative
mundaner
superlative
mundanest
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).