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    banal - Dictionary definition and meaning for word banal

    Definition
    (adj) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
    Example Sentence
    • 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'
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for banal

abey nal to roz hi kholte hain...

SPLIT INTO ba-nal ba-BAR - COMMONPLACE FOR MEN TO MEET & NAL(HINDI - TAP) - COMMON PLACE FOR WOMEN TO MEET.

'ban + al' --> 'ban all' those directors whose movies are 'banal' (the same old story lines are repeated ; (another meaning) dull and unoriginal(dubbed))

Divide it like -- ban + al(ban all people); you ban all those people from your group, if they are repeating the same activity again and again.

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When u r in severe depression u will lock urself in ur room BANNING ALL people for a while as u need some privacy

Banal = I would like to BAN-ALL banal words because they are dull and overused.

banal sounds like GUNAL(a tamil movie actor).So his death has been shown on TV for many days(repeated too often).

banal => bakwaas(hindi) not always, means being a waste as it's overrepeated.

banal: beh nal. behta hua nal is a vey munadane affair

ca be taken as a short from for Boring And Not originAL....


Word used in video below:
text: to preface it with banal chitchat
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