banal

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banal Definition

• (s) obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"
• (s) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails''"

banal Synonyms

• banal
• commonplace
• hackneyed
• old-hat
• shopworn
• stock(a)
• threadbare
• timeworn
• tired
• trite
• trivial
• well-worn