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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Banal \Ban"al\, a. [F., fr ban an ordinance.] Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: banal adj 1: obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose" [syn: {commonplace}, {trivial}] 2: 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'" [syn: {commonplace}, {hackneyed}, {shopworn}, {stock(a)}, {threadbare}, {timeworn}, {tired}, {trite}, {well-worn}]
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