All banal synonyms
baΒ·nal
B b adj banal
- mundane β common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative.
- hackneyed β let out, employed, or done for hire.
- vapid β lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor; insipid; flat: vapid tea.
- stupid β lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- dumb β lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted.
- corny β If you describe something as corny, you mean that it is obvious or sentimental and not at all original.
- trite β lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale: the trite phrases in his letter.
- bland β If you describe someone or something as bland, you mean that they are rather dull and unexciting.
- blah β You use blah, blah, blah to refer to something that is said or written without giving the actual words, because you think that they are boring or unimportant.
- common β If something is common, it is found in large numbers or it happens often.
- conventional β Someone who is conventional has behaviour or opinions that are ordinary and normal.
- flat β horizontally level: a flat roof.
- hokey β overly sentimental; mawkish: Two glasses of wine and he gets unbearably hokey; it's hard to believe he's a highly paid executive! Synonyms: corny, maudlin, melodramatic, cloying, goopy, mushy.
- humdrum β lacking variety; boring; dull: a humdrum existence.
- insipid β without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality.
- nothing β no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- old hat β old-fashioned; dated.
- ordinary β of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
- pabulum β something that nourishes an animal or vegetable organism; food; nutriment.
- pedestrian β a person who goes or travels on foot; walker.
- square β a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- stale β not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
- stereotyped β reproduced in or by stereotype plates.
- stock β a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- tired β having a tire or tires.
- tripe β the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food. Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- unimaginative β characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
- unoriginal β belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning: The book still has its original binding.
- watery β pertaining to or connected with water: watery Neptune.
- wishy-washy β lacking in decisiveness; without strength or character; irresolute.
- zero β the figure or symbol 0, which in the Arabic notation for numbers stands for the absence of quantity; cipher.
- bromidic β ordinary; dull
- cliched β If you describe something as clichΓ©d, you mean that it has been said, done, or used many times before, and is boring or untrue.
- platitudinous β characterized by or given to platitudes.
- cornball β Cornball means the same as corny.
- cornfed β fed on corn
- dull as dishwater β water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
- noplace β nowhere.
- nowhere β in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
adjective banal
- commonplace β If something is commonplace, it happens often or is often found, and is therefore not surprising.
- prosaic β commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- predictable β able to be foretold or declared in advance: New technology allows predictable weather forecasting.
- dull β not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
- boring β Someone or something boring is so dull and uninteresting that they make people tired and impatient.
- trivial β of very little importance or value; insignificant: Don't bother me with trivial matters.
- facile β moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind.