Hypertext Webster Gateway: "banal"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Banal \Ban"al\, a. [F., fr. ban an ordinance.]
Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
banal
adj 1: obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace
prose" [syn: {commonplace}, {trivial}]
2: 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'" [syn: {commonplace}, {hackneyed},
{shopworn}, {stock(a)}, {threadbare}, {timeworn}, {tired},
{trite}, {well-worn}]
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