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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Banal \Ban"al\, adjective [F., fr. ban an ordinance.] Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
banal
adjective
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}, {old-hat}, {shopworn}, {stock(a)}, {threadbare}, {timeworn}, {tired}, {trite}, {well-worn}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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