1 too often used in the past and therefore not interesting:
But the poetic relation between the two too often tends either to the banal or the meaningless.
Rather, he gives us unexpert sophistication: a village band staggering from solecism to solecism in an ostentatiously banal and trivial tune.
It is no banal event that she rises above making noise.
What was once fresh and liberating could verge on the banal today.
What happens next in his argument is oddly banal.
The ad hoc committee that investigated the defeat came up with no fewer than 28 reasons, from the banal to the incisive.
The use of figurative language, banal as it may seem, reflects the experience of the user and the intellectual environment in which he functioned.
Thus stated, the message sounds almost banal, but on stage it was striking and resonated with great power.
