Grammatical class
Adjective
banal
(historical) owned by feudal lords
Details
Syllables
ba-nal
Phonetics
ba.nal
Grammatical class
Adjective
Freq. (books)
4580
Freq. (movies)
6426
Freq. (news)
10847
Sentences
Un four banal
A village oven
A1
C'est très banal.
It's very humdrum.
A1
C'est devenu banal.
It's become commonplace.
A1
J'ai trouvé cela mièvre et banal.
I thought it was cloying and trite.
B1
Son humour est trop banal pour être subversif.
His humor is too trite to be edgy.
B2
C'est soit trop banal pour mériter ce niveau d'innovation, soit bizarre parce que la terminologie singulière ne véhicule pas le sens.
It's either too trite to merit that level of innovation or awkward because the non-standard terminology gets in the way of the meaning.
C2