banal

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

banal
    adj 1: 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}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Banal \Ban"al\, a. [F., fr. ban an ordinance.]
   Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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