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adj
Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: profane, temporal, worldly, areligious, civil, earthly, irreligious, laicist, laicistic, mundane, nonreligious, secular, unconsecrated, unsanctified
Antonyms: heavenly, arcane
adj
Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Ordinary; not new.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: banal, boring, commonplace, everyday, routine, workaday, jejune, pedestrian, earthbound, basic, beat, blah, bland, cold, colourless, corny, drab, stuffy, dreich, drowsy, dull, dull as dishwater, flat, heavy going, ho-hum, humdrum, insipid, lackluster, lame, languid, lifeless, longsome, monotonous, mundane, no fun at parties, plain, plodding, prosaic, prosy, pedantic, static, straightforward, snoozeworthy, soporific, tedious, uncool, wan, weaksauce, wooden, uninteresting, stodgy, vapid, vanilla, average, medial, bog-standard, common, common-and-garden, common-or-garden, congruent, consistent, conventional, customary, expected, garden variety, improminent, natural, normal, ordinary, par for the course, par, plain vanilla, quotidian, regular, run-of-the-mill, standard, standard issue, typical, unexceptional, unremarkable, unstrange, usual, vulgar, wakeaday
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Tedious; repetitive and boring.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: banal, basic, beat, blah, commonplace, bland, boring, cold, colourless, corny, drab, stuffy, dreich, drowsy, dull, dull as dishwater, flat, heavy going, ho-hum, humdrum, insipid, lackluster, lame, languid, lifeless, longsome, monotonous, mundane, no fun at parties, plain, plodding, prosaic, prosy, pedantic, pedestrian, static, straightforward, snoozeworthy, soporific, tedious, uncool, wan, weaksauce, wooden, uninteresting, stodgy, vapid, vanilla
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noun
An unremarkable, ordinary human being.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, slang
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noun
A person who is not a Satanist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory
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noun
The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: lifestyle
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adjective satellite
belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: terrene
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
found in the ordinary course of events- Anita Diamant
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: everyday, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
concerned with the world or worldly matters
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: terrestrial
Antonyms: none provided
History
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)).
Across languages
113 source translations are retained for this English entry.
