'Banal' definitions:
Definition of 'banal'
From: WordNet
adjective
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: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn]
Definition of 'Banal'
From: GCIDE
- Banal \Ban"al\, a. [F., fr. ban an ordinance.] Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'banal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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