mundane

/ˌˈmʌnˌˈdeɪn/

/mənˈdeɪn/

An ordinary, unexciting thing can be called mundane: "Superman hid his heroic feats by posing as his mundane alter ego, Clark Kent."

Mundane, from the Latin word mundus, "world," originally referred to things on earth. Such things were supposed to be uninteresting when compared to the delights of Heaven; hence the word's present meaning. Writing about reality TV shows, a Newsweek writer opined, "In reality bizarro-world, the mundane is presented as the spectacular" — in other words, people's everyday routines are now televised as entertainment.

Definitions of mundane

1. adjective

   found in the ordinary course of events
   synonyms: everyday, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday

   ordinary

   not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree
2. adjective

   concerned with the world or worldly matters
   “mundane affairs”

   synonyms: terrestrial

   secular, temporal, worldly

   characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
3. adjective

   belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly
   “yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind”

   synonyms: terrene

   earthly

   of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven