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mondain — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • mundane adj Ordinary and unremarkable; part of everyday routine rather than exciting or unusual.
  • secular adj Not connected to religion; concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters.
  • sophisticated adj Having a lot of worldly experience and refined taste; cultured and knowledgeable.
  • worldly adj Concerned with material or practical life rather than spiritual matters.

Senses

mondain is used for these senses in English:

  • secular Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical; profane.
  • sophisticated Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
  • worldly Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual.

mundane — full definition

  1. adj Ordinary and unremarkable; part of everyday routine rather than exciting or unusual.
  2. adj Relating to the ordinary physical world rather than the spiritual or supernatural.

secular — full definition

  1. adj Not connected to religion; concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters.
  2. adj Of a member of the clergy: living among ordinary people rather than under monastic vows.

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