mundane
ordinary, dull, and lacking interest
Word origin: From Latin mundus, world.
Mundane in a sentence
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She longed for adventure but spent her days on mundane chores.
The diary's value lies precisely in its mundane detail, recording the ordinary routines of an eighteenth-century household.
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Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.
Using “mundane” well
Mundane usually means dull and ordinary, but it can also mean worldly or earthly as opposed to spiritual. Context distinguishes the everyday sense from the secular one.
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