1. 平庸的；平淡无奇的
If you describe something as banal, you do not like it because you think that it is so ordinary that it is not at all effective or interesting.

1. repeated too often
overfamiliar through overuse

e.g. 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'

Synonym: commonplacehackneyedold-hatshopwornstock(a)threadbaretimeworntiredtritewell-worn