banal(s = adj.all) commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn - 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'"
Derived form noun banality1
Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite. [1913 Webster]
banal, adj. trite, feeble, commonplace.
Derivative:
banality n. (pl. -ies). banally adv.
Etymology:
orig. in sense 'compulsory', hence 'common to all', f. F f. ban (as BAN)