mundane – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of mundane

Adjective: mundane

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativemundaner
Superlativemundanest

Perifrastic

Sample Sentences

  • 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. [1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)]
  • 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. [1959 December 1, Ron Bennett, Skyrack, number 10:]
  • 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. [2014, C.N. Constantin, Jason Cable Hall, Dark Revelations - Book of Magic, Chris Constantin, →ISBN, Magical Items of Dark Revelations, page 311:]
  • 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. [2022, Kaleb "NorskDaedalus" England, “The Time of Our Limes” (chapter 17), in The Way Ahead, Podium Publishing, →ISBN:]
  • 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. [2024, Rusty Reece, The Warrior & The Dragon, iUniverse, →ISBN:]

Adjectives inflected like mundane

scarce, smoove, sombre, wholsome, sheene, bolshie, baroque, concrete, seveare, comf'table, shrewde, 'umble, grislie, unsubtle, ungentle, indiscrete, couthie, chavvie, lissome, cutesie, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

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