Masculine

banale

Meaning

  1. (by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine) banal, cliché, trite
  2. (by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine) trivial, unimportant, mere, ordinary, common
  3. (by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine) dull, uninteresting (of person)
  4. (by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine) said of a solution of a problem that is trivial, e.g. when variables are all zero

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
ba‧nà‧le
Pronounced as (IPA)
/baˈna.le/
Etymology

Borrowed from French banal, derived from ban (“declaration, announcement”).

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