banalize

ba·nal (b

-n

, b

l, b

-näl

)

adj.

Drearily commonplace and often predictable; trite: "Blunt language cannot hide a banal conception" (James Wolcott).

[French, from Old French, shared by tenants in a feudal jurisdiction, from ban, summons to military service, of Germanic origin; see bh-² in Indo-European roots.]

ba·nalize v.

ba·nally adv.

Usage Note: The pronunciation of banal is not settled among educated speakers of American English. Sixty years ago, H.W. Fowler recommended the pronunciation (b

l, rhyming with panel), but this pronunciation is now regarded as recondite by most Americans: no member of the Usage Panel prefers this pronunciation. In our 2001 survey, (b

) is preferred by 58 percent of the Usage Panel, (b

l) by 28 percent, and (b

-näl

) by 13 percent (this pronunciation is more common in British English). Some Panelists admit to being so vexed by the problem that they tend to avoid the word in conversation. Speakers can perhaps take comfort in knowing that these three pronunciations each have the support of at least some of the Usage Panel and that none of them is incorrect. When several pronunciations of a word are widely used, there is really no right or wrong one.

banal [bəˈnɑːl]

adj

lacking force or originality; trite; commonplace

[from Old French: relating to compulsory feudal service, hence common to all, commonplace, from ban ban²]

banality [bəˈnælɪtɪ] n

banally adv

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Adj.

banal - 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'"

stock, threadbare, timeworn, hackneyed, old-hat, trite, well-worn, shopworn, tired, commonplace

unoriginal - not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham

banal

adjective unoriginal, stock, ordinary, boring, tired, routine, dull, everyday, stereotypical, pedestrian, commonplace, mundane, tedious, vanilla (slang), dreary, stale, tiresome, monotonous, humdrum, threadbare, trite, unimaginative, uneventful, uninteresting, clichéd, old hat, mind-numbing, hackneyed, ho-hum (informal), vapid, repetitious, wearisome, platitudinous, cliché-ridden, unvaried The text is banal.
new, interesting, challenging, original, fresh, novel, unique, unusual, stimulating, distinctive, imaginative, ground-breaking

Translations

banal [bəˈnɑːl] ADJ → banal

banal [bəˈnɑːl] adj [remark, conversation, question, idea] → banal(e)

banal

adj → banal

banal [bəˈnɑːl] adj → banale

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banality banally Camp camping campy clichéd common commonplace corny hack hackney hackneyed mundane old-hat overworked painfully platitudinous run-of-the-mill runny	25) Meyerowitz's well crafted photographs of the interplay of light and smoke on the jagged forms of the architectural ruins, and his depiction of recovery workers as heroic ruins themselves--fighting the suffocating weight of emotional and physical exhaustion--certainly do not banalize the atrocity of Ground Zero. "Too young and vibrant for runis": ground zero photography and the ... by Perry, Weena / Afterimage More than the mere lure of the exotic, jazz could banalize and trivialize the entire question of race, which could thus be reduced to a comical episode on the path to Italy's historical realization of its own Aryan-ness. The saxophone and the pastoral Italian jazz in the age of fascist ... by Dainotto, Roberto / Italica [13] Excessive power and routinization banalizes and tempers the power of state iconography. Official representations of the nation: comparing the postage stamps ... by Kevane, Michael / African Studies Quarterly	Bamberg bambi bambino Bambocciade bamboo Bamboo Curtain bamboo fern bamboo network bamboo palm Bamboo partridge Bamboo rat bamboo shoot bamboozle Bamboozler Bambusa Bambusa vulgaris Bambuseae ban Ban of the empire Ban-Lon Banaba Banaban banak banal banality banalize banally banana banana belt Banana bender Banana bird banana boat banana bread banana family banana oil banana passion fruit banana peel banana plug banana prawn banana quit banana republic banana seat banana skin banana slug Banana solution banana split banana tree bananas Banaras Banat banausic	Banach algebras Banach Center Publications Banach completion Banach function space Banach inverse mapping theorem Banach norm Banach ring Banach space Banach spaces Banach's fixed point theorem Banach's fixed-point theorem Banach, Stefan Banach-Schauder theorem Banach-Steinhaus theorem Banach-Tarski paradox Banados-Teitelboim-Zanelli BANAGAS Banaias banak banakite banal banal banal banalities banalities banalities banality banality banality banalize banally banally Banamex Banamex Banamine banana banana banana banana banana Banana (disambiguation) Banana (fruit) Banana (fruit) Banana (fruit) Banana bag Banana Bag & Bodice Banana Banana Humus Humus Banana Banshee Banana Banshee Banana Banshee Banana bean Banana bean Banana bean Banana belt banana belts Banana bender Banana benders Banana bird Banana board Banana board

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25) Meyerowitz's well crafted photographs of the interplay of light and smoke on the jagged forms of the architectural ruins, and his depiction of recovery workers as heroic ruins themselves--fighting the suffocating weight of emotional and physical exhaustion--certainly do not banalize the atrocity of Ground Zero.

"Too young and vibrant for runis": ground zero photography and the ... by Perry, Weena / Afterimage

More than the mere lure of the exotic, jazz could banalize and trivialize the entire question of race, which could thus be reduced to a comical episode on the path to Italy's historical realization of its own Aryan-ness.

The saxophone and the pastoral Italian jazz in the age of fascist ... by Dainotto, Roberto / Italica

[13] Excessive power and routinization banalizes and tempers the power of state iconography.

Official representations of the nation: comparing the postage stamps ... by Kevane, Michael / African Studies Quarterly

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