Definition of banal in English:

adjective

• So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.

  ‘songs with banal, repeated words’

  More example sentences

  • ‘So expertly dissected that it's like all great satire - banal in its accuracy and attention to detail.’
  • ‘I find most New Age spiritual music to be boring and banal but I've met a lot of people that find great use for it.’
  • ‘The play pokes fun at these dialogues through characters having banal conversations.’
  • ‘The album avoids being banal and predictable because he is not afraid to fully use his voice to emote.’
  • ‘I made a long list of quite banal and boring questions that I went through and asked this man.’
  • ‘It doesn't really say anything new and tells its story in the most banal and predictable manner possible.’
  • ‘Ray's comments swerved from the banal, to the solid and sober, like all good reporters.’
  • ‘The real opposite of the sublime is, of course, the intransigently banal and commonsensical.’
  • ‘No one can get excited about the most boring and banal of road stops like this guy.’
  • ‘What followed was flagrant musical bankruptcy and the insufferable drone of banal music.’
  • ‘The banal and obvious truth is that life and a country are largely what you make of them.’
  • ‘She loathes Hollywood, finds it distasteful and banal, hates the idea of her art being tainted by commerce.’
  • ‘I suspect that he thinks he is one, which is why we are occasionally treated to comments that to most people appear banal.’
  • ‘As long as domesticated TV reigns supreme, our fascination with the banal will surely continue.’
  • ‘People are always trotting out banal statistics and clichés to placate those who appear to be in a spot of bother.’
  • ‘A song which can appeal to non-native speakers is obviously going to have relatively banal lyrics.’
  • ‘While some of the book's guidelines are common sense, others are banal.’
  • ‘The outcome of this populist turn is the celebration of the ordinary and the banal.’
  • ‘This outcome has become a banal tautology repeated in every pharmaceutical marketing article.’
  • ‘Her comments are so threadbare and banal, that her role smacks of the worst kind of tokenism.’

  Synonyms

  trite, hackneyed, clichéd, platitudinous, vapid, commonplace, ordinary, common, stock, conventional, stereotyped, predictable, overused, overdone, overworked, stale, worn out, time-worn, tired, threadbare, hoary, hack, unimaginative, unoriginal, derivative, uninspired, prosaic, dull, boring, pedestrian, run-of-the-mill, routine, humdrum

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