workaday

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

being part of normal life and not special
ordinaryHe took ordinary household objects and transformed them into pieces of art.
everydayComputers are now just a part of everyday life.
quotidianWe longed for the quotidian rituals, like shopping and tea, that the end of the war would bring.
day-to-dayDay-to-day operations of the team would be handled by the assistant coach.
dailyI'm looking for a good daily shampoo that won't damage my hair.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Plain and ordinary
as it comesidiom
austere
austerely
austerity
average Joe
homespun
homey
humble
humdrum
middle-of-the-road
sparely
spartan
stale
starkly
starkness
unostentatious
unostentatiously
unpainted
unremarkable
unremarkably

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Tedious and uninspiring

mundane | American Dictionary

mundane
adjective
us/mʌnˈdeɪn, ˈmʌn·deɪn/
ordinary and not interesting in any way:
The show was just another mundane family sitcom.

Examples of mundane

mundane
No call to care, finally, could be too mundane; what could be more ordinary than peeling an egg?
What remains is a combination of the wondrous and mundane.
Three different points will be addressed here, beginning with the mundane (material) and methodological, and concluding with the 'sublime' or theoretical.
Resolving other mundane issues is currently a matter of sheer tedium.
This is a shame, especially when it leads to overly-literal accounts of songs rendered in a rather mundane reported speech.
The first was a product of frustration with the mundane quality of the policy debate in the mid 1980s.
It also hails a very specific, liberating nonsense meant to deliver readers from the stultifying order of the mundane.
Some of these strategies are reflected in the material markers of elite culture; others are signaled through more mundane patterns.
When conversation has turned too serious or discordant, men introduce stories that are humorous or concern rather mundane behaviors and activities.
But they are the same properties that mundane non-divine things possess, to a lesser degree.
So far, people's mundane, ' this world ', and secularist perspectives on life after death have been highlighted, perhaps to excess.
However, many narrators wrote only reluctantly, suspecting that their life stories were too mundane to be of any interest to anybody.
The materials from non-elite contexts are ordinary and mundane, yet they clearly served the same functions as their elite analogs.
But those tendencies themselves are informed by the mundane beliefs that ordinary speakers have about law.
In other words, these systems separate caloric value from cultural meaning: animals are either mundane or metaphoric.
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