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発音

• IPA: /mʌnˈdeɪn/, /mən-/
  • (米国発音) IPA: [mʌnˈdeɪn]
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: [mɐnˈdeɪn]
  • (Standard Southern British) IPA: [mʌnˈdɛjn]
  • (Canada) IPA: [mʌnˈdeːn], [mʊn-]
  • (Australia) IPA: [mɐnˈdæɪn]
• 韻: -eɪn
• ハイフネーション: mun‧dane

形容詞

mundane (comparative mundaner, superlative mundanest)

1. Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.

   Synonyms: profane, temporal, worldly; see also Thesaurus:secular

   Antonyms: heavenly, arcane

2. Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world.
   • 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):

     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.

3. Ordinary; not new; part of the mainstream culture.

   Synonyms: banal, boring, commonplace, everyday, routine, workaday, jejune, pedestrian, earthbound; see also Thesaurus:boring, Thesaurus:normal

   • 1959 December 1, Ron Bennett, Skyrack‎, number 10:

     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.

4. Tedious; repetitive and boring.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:boring

5. (fantasy) Non-magical; without supernatural powers or properties.

   Antonyms: magical, supernatural

   • 2014, C.N. Constantin, Jason Cable Hall, Dark Revelations - Book of Magic, Chris Constantin, →ISBN, Magical Items of Dark Revelations, page 311:

     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.

   • 2022, Kaleb "NorskDaedalus" England, “The Time of Our Limes” (chapter 17), in The Way Ahead, Podium Publishing, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2024, Rusty Reece, The Warrior & The Dragon, iUniverse, →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.

派生語

参照

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “mundane”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

名詞

mundane (plural mundanes)

1. An unremarkable, ordinary human being.
2. (slang, derogatory, in various subcultures) A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group.
   • 1989 Spring, Lawrence Person, “Fear and Loathing in New Orleans: A Savage Journey Into the Heart of American Fandom”, in Nova Express, volume 2, number 3 (whole number #7), page 10:

     The Demon Barber and I played Shock the Mundanes. The door would open up and we would start a sentence in mid-imaginary conversation, like—‘Of course, they never found the body.’

   • 1996, Angel of Death, “furries vs. mundanes”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):

     Some people just think your a sicko or something for enjoying the art. I know that alot of the time, I would rather see some nice nude furrygirls instead of pictures of nude mundanes.

   • 2010, Antonia Levi, “Introduction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 5:

     "A guy dressed up as Pikachu called me a freak," complained one boys' love fan at Seattle's 2006 Sakura-Con. "To the mundanes, everyone at this con is a freak, but we're pariahs even to the other freaks."

3. (derogatory, satanism) A person who is not a Satanist.
4. (fandom slang, as "the mundane") The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.
   • 1966 November, Lee Hoffman, “Our Authors”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly‎, number 4, page 35:

     Long famed in fandom, Mr. Bloch skyrocketed to prominence in the mundane when his autobiographical novel, PSYCHO, was made into a hit motion picture.

5. (fantasy) A person with no magical or supernatural powers or properties.
   • 2013, Joshua Lewis, The Shadowhunter's Codex, Margaret K. McElderry Books, →ISBN, Bestiaire Part III: Angels and Men (section V), page 124:

     The mundane world is the world you know. It is the world from which, new Nephilim, you have come, and its people, the mundanes, are the people you knew and the people you yourself were, until recently when you were changed.

   • 2015, Vincent Trigili, chapter 14, in Rise of Shadows, Lulu.com, →ISBN:

     “Well, I can't help but wonder: are we wizards fighting like mundanes, or mundanes who happen to have a few wizard tools to call on?” asked Dusty.

   • 2023, Michael Robert von Blucher-Altona, “Landings” (chapter 17), in Forkbraid: The Price of Peace, Michael Robert von Blucher-Altona, →ISBN:

     “The rest of the complex on the coast is for the mundanes.” “Mundanes?”, queried Peter. “You know, the ordinary folk, like us”, Varak replied.

同意語

• (ordinary person): See Thesaurus:mundane
• (mainstream person): See Thesaurus:mainstreamer

派生語

参考

• mundane on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Article on the use of “mundane” as a derogatory term.

アナグラム

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