Vocabulary
Mundane
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
lacking interest or excitement; dull.
Urdu meaning
دنیاوی،عارضی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The interplay of the finite and the infinite, the divine and the earthly, the spiritual and the mundane, can only be captured by the power of the poetic paradox.
- Few things are sillier than grown men or women carrying state-of-the art tech in the palm of their hands yet using them for the most mundane and elementary tasks.
- But despite one`s best efforts, thoughts wander to mundane matters as they do to the unintended consequences of the events taking place in our country.
- We also saw that after the USSR`s withdrawal, while we expected the mujahideen to return to their mundane village life, they, having become used to power and pelf, morphed into the Taliban.
Synonyms
humdrum, dull, boring, tedious, monotonous, tiresome, wearisome, prosaic
Antonyms
extraordinary, imaginative
Curator example
“his mundane, humdrum existence”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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