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mundane
Meaning: lacking excitement or interest; ordinary
mundane in a sentence
How mundane is used in real sentences:
Washing dishes is a mundane chore that Marcus does every night.
The reporter skipped the mundane details and focused on the scandal instead.
“Their work also included mundane hours of counting seeds, recording temperatures, and cleaning rain gauges.”
— from the passage The Winter Choice
Synonyms for mundane
Other words for mundane — ordinary, routine and humdrum — carry the same meaning.
Antonyms of mundane
Words that mean the opposite of mundane:
- extraordinary
- exciting
Where it comes from
From Latin mundus 'world' — belonging to this ordinary world, not the divine
Memory hook
MUN-dane sounds like 'Monday' — every Monday feels the same, boring and routine.