banal : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: banal	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for banal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
banal adj 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'" Synonym(s): banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Banal \Ban"al\, a. [F., fr. ban an ordinance.] Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.