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banaladjective lacking in qualities that make for spirit and characterunlike their early work, the band's latest offering is banal and uninspiring flat, insipid, milk-and-water, namby-pamby, watery, wishy-washy unexciting, uninspiring, unrewardingbland, boring, drab, dreary, dry, dull, heavy, humdrum, jading, leaden, lifeless, monotonous, pedestrian, ponderous, tedious, tiresome, tiring, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, weary, wearyinginaneinnocuous, inoffensivemild, soft, subdued, tame, weakcommon, commonplace, ordinary, stale, unexceptional piquant, poignant, pungent, racy, spicymeaty, substantialentertaining, exciting, galvanizing, inspiring, invigorating, thrilling used or heard so often as to be dullplease find new ways of phrasing your thoughts instead of relying on banal expressions cliché(also cliche), clichéd, cobwebby, commonplace, hack, hackney, hackneyed, moth-eaten, musty, obligatory, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn twice-toldbromidic, platitudinal, platitudinouscanned, cardboard, conventional, cookie-cutter, derivative, imitative, ready-made, tried-and-true, unimaginative, uninspired, unoriginalnormal, ordinary, rote, routine, standard, stock, typical, usualarid, barren, boring, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, jejune, leaden, mind-numbing, monotonous, numbing, old, pedantic, pedestrian, ponderous, prosaic, stodgy, stuffy, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, undramatic, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, weary, wearyingold-fashioned, old hat fresh, new, novel, original, unclichéd, unhackneyed animating, energizing, enlivening, exciting, galvanizing, invigorating, stimulatingabsorbing, engaging, engrossing, gripping, interesting, intriguing, involving, rivetingatypical, extraordinary, strange, unaccustomed, uncommon, unfamiliar, unheard-of, unknown, unprecedented, unusualpathbreaking, pioneering, trailblazing insipid, vapid, flat, jejune, banal, inane mean devoid of qualities that make for spirit and character.insipid implies a lack of sufficient taste or savor to please or interest.an insipid romance with platitudes on every page vapid suggests a lack of liveliness, force, or spirit.an exciting story given a vapid treatment flat applies to things that have lost their sparkle or zest.although well-regarded in its day, the novel now seems flat jejune suggests a lack of rewarding or satisfying substance.a jejune and gassy speech banal stresses the complete absence of freshness, novelty, or immediacy.a banal tale of unrequited love inane implies a lack of any significant or convincing quality.an inane interpretation of the play in 1825 |