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banal

adjective/bəˈnɑːl/

C1CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister

So lacking in originality as to be boring and predictable.

The film's dialogue was so banal that the audience began to laugh in the wrong places.

Similar: trite, hackneyed, insipid

Topic: Cambridge C1 (part 2) in General English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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More general words: Cambridge C1 (part 2)