Banal

[BanĀ·al]

If something is boring and unoriginal, it's banal. Banal things are dull as dishwater.

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Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.

Adjective S.
obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"

Adjective 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''"


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Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.


Banal

Ban"al , a. [F., fr. ban an ordinance.] Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.

Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.

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Usage Examples

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.

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