Meaning & use
banal
So commonplace and predictable that it lacks originality or interest.
See it in a sentence
The film's dialogue felt banal, full of clichés we had heard a hundred times before.
She grew tired of the banal small talk at the networking event.
A note on using this word
Banal carries a critical tone, implying that something is not just ordinary but tediously unoriginal.
Words with a similar meaning
triteclichéd
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