| 单词 | banal |
| 释义 | banal (once / 4510 pages) adj If something is boring and unoriginal, it's banal. Banal things are dull as dishwater. Ever notice how some TV shows, songs, and even phrases are boring and unoriginal? It's like you've seen or heard the same thing a million times. Anything that's unoriginal and dull is banal — a fancy word for things that bore you to tears. When you're writing, try not to be banal. Clichés and dull topics are banal. New ideas, fresh language, and unusual subject matter can keep your writing from being dreary and banal. WORD FAMILYbanal: banality, banally+/banality: banalities USAGE EXAMPLESGreat recipes are kind of like instruction manuals for alchemy, showing us how to transform ordinary, often banal, taken-for-granted ingredients into extraordinary dishes. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) Our critic Stephen Holden writes that in the end, it “becomes a banal, formulaic pastiche of dozens of other like-minded space operas.” New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) They meant that leaders were cooperating and that transparency prevailed, no matter how banal the particular tidings. Slate(Dec 21, 2016) adj repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse Syn commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn unoriginal not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual |
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