About The Word Banal
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Banal
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What's The Definition Of Banal?
[adj] obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"
[adj] 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'" Synonyms | Synonyms for Banal: commonplace | hackneyed | ordinary | shopworn | stock(a) | threadbare | timeworn | tired | trite | trivial | unoriginal | well-worn Related Terms | Find terms related to Banal: asinine | average | back-number | bewhiskered | bland | bromidic | central | cliched | common | commonplace | corny | cut-and-dried | everyday | fade | familiar | fatuous | flat | fusty | hackney | hackneyed | hoary | humdrum | intermediary | intermediate | jejune | mean | medial | median | mediocre | medium | middle-of-the-road | middling | milk-and-water | moderate | moth-eaten | musty | namby-pamby | normal | old | old hat | ordinary | pedestrian | petty | platitudinous | routine | sapless | set | silly | simple | square | stale | standard | stereotyped | stock | threadbare | timeworn | tired | trite | trivial | truistic | unimaginative | unoriginal | usual | vapid | warmed-over | waterish | watery | well-known | well-worn | wishy-washy | worn | worn thin See Also | Banal In Webster's Dictionary \Ban"al\, a. [F., fr. ban an ordinance.]
Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.
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