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