Banal

Adjective

 * 1) Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.

Adverbs for Banal
monotonously; tritely; tiresomely; boringly; disagreeably; drearily; unceasingly; invariably; triflingly; vapidly; inanely; insipidly; intolerably; trivially; unbearably; exhaustingly; wearily; tediously; frivolously; senselessly; vacuously; insufferably; habitually; prosily; uninterestingly

Synonyms for Banal
cliche, cliché, corny, everyday, hackneyed, prosaic, trite, vapid meh, flat, inane, fatuous, commonplace, ordinary, stereotyped.

Antonyms for Banal
new, original, ordinary, exciting, fresh.

Related terms

 * banality
 * banalize
 * banally

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

Etymology
< bannal: <  bannalis: < bannum:.

Pronunciation

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Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Bulgarian: обикновен, банален
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 平凡, 平庸, 平常
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua:


 * Italian:
 * Lithuanian: banalus,,  banalūs,  banalios
 * Norwegian:, banalt
 * Polish:, banalna, banalne, banalni
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: банальный, избитый,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * West Frisian:

Anagrams

 * Alban
 * Laban
 * nabla

Noun

 * 1) bramble
 * 2) broom (a plant, sp. Genista)

Adjective

 * 1) banal

Adjective

 * 1)  public

Anagrams

 * Alban

Etymology
From banal:

Adjective

 * 1) banal

Related terms

 * Banalität
 * banalisieren

Etymology
From banaal:

Adjective

 * 1) banal

Adjective

 * 1) banal

Adjective

 * 1) pious