Usually means: Lacking originality, boringly commonplace.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word banal:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. banal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. banal: Collins English Dictionary
  3. banal: Vocabulary.com
  4. Banal, banal: Wordnik
  5. banal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. banal: Wiktionary
  7. banal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. banal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. banal: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. banal: Dictionary.com
  11. banal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. banal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Banal (film), Banal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Banal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. banal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. banal: Rhymezone
  17. banal, banal, banal(e) (-als): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. banal: FreeDictionary.org
  19. banal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. banal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. banal: Merriam-Webster
  22. banal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  23. banal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. banal: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. banal: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. banal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. banal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. banal: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See banality as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.
adjective:  (uncommon, historical) Relating to a type of feudal jurisdiction or service.

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