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[ adjective ] found in the ordinary course of events

Examples

"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

Used in print

(Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)

It gives him aid , comfort , even solace , in meeting mundane life situations where his own unassisted practical knowledge and skill are felt by him to be inadequate .

Related terms

ordinary

2
[ adjective ] concerned with the world or worldly matters

Synonyms

terrestrial

Examples

"mundane affairs" "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality"

Related terms

worldly

3
[ adjective ] belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly

Synonyms

terrene

Examples

"not a fairy palace yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind" "so terrene a being as himself"

Related terms

earthly

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