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banal
Overview of adj banal
The adj banal has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn -- (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'")
Grep of noun banal
banality
Antonyms of adj banal
1 sense of banal
Sense 1
banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(prenominal), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
INDIRECT (VIA unoriginal) -> original
Similarity of adj banal
1 sense of banal
Sense 1
banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(prenominal), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
=> unoriginal (vs. original)
Pertainyms of adj banal
Attributes of adj banal
Domain of adj banal
Domain Terms of adj banal
Familiarity of adj banal
banal used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Grep of adj banal
banal
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