Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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mundane

UK [mɐnˈdeɪn] · US [mʌnˈdeɪn] adjective, noun

Forms mundaner mundanest mundanes

  1. adjective Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.
  2. adjective Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world.
  3. adjective Ordinary; not new; part of the mainstream culture.
  4. adjective Tedious; repetitive and boring.
  5. adjective (fantasy) Non-magical; without supernatural powers or properties.
  6. noun An unremarkable, ordinary human being.
  7. noun (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.
  8. noun (derogatory, satanism) A person who is not a Satanist.
  9. noun (fandom slang, as "the mundane") The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.
  10. noun (fantasy) A person with no magical or supernatural powers or properties.

Synonyms

profane temporal worldly areligious civil earthly irreligious laicist laicistic nonreligious secular unconsecrated unsanctified banal boring commonplace everyday routine workaday jejune quotidian unremarkable terrestrial terrene

Antonyms

heavenly arcane magical supernatural athlete empath genius intellectual mad scientist magician maverick medium

Etymology

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

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the world; worldly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere.

Etymology [L. mundanus, fr. mundus the world, an implement, toilet adornments, or dress; cf. mundus, a., clean, neat, Skr. mansds to adorn, dress, mansdsa adornment. Cf. Monde, Mound in heraldry.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “mundane”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “mundane” (best matches first).

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