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Banal

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Adjective

1. banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn

repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

Example Sentences:
'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''

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Banal

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adjective
lacking force or originality; trite; commonplace

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Banal

see synonyms of banal
adjective
dull or stale as because of overuse; trite; hackneyed; commonplace

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Banal

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adj.
Drearily commonplace and often predictable; trite: “Blunt language cannot hide a banal conception” (James Wolcott).

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