Banal vs. Mundane

Banaladjective

Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.

Banaladjective

Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.

Banaladjective

obvious and dull;

Banaladjective

repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;

Banaladjective

so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring

Mundaneadjective

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

Mundaneadjective

Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world.

Mundaneadjective

Ordinary; not new.

Mundaneadjective

Tedious; repetitive and boring.

Mundanenoun

An unremarkable, ordinary human being.

Mundanenoun

A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group.

Mundanenoun

(fandom slang) The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.

Mundaneadjective

Of or pertaining to the world; worldly, as contrasted with heavenly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere; mundane concerns.

Mundaneadjective

Commonplace; ordinary; banal.

Mundaneadjective

found in the ordinary course of events;

Mundaneadjective

concerned with the world or worldly matters;

Mundaneadjective

belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly;

Mundaneadjective

lacking interest or excitement; dull

Mundaneadjective

of this earthly world rather than a heavenly or spiritual one

Mundaneadjective

relating to or denoting the branch of astrology that deals with the prediction of earthly events.

Mundane

In subcultural and fictional uses, a mundane is a person who does not belong to a particular group, according to the members of that group; the implication is that such persons, lacking imagination, are concerned solely with the mundane: the quotidian and ordinary. The term first came into use in science fiction fandom to refer, sometimes deprecatingly, to non-fans; this use of the term antedates 1955.