banal
buh-NALadjMeaning dull and unoriginal because so common
Memory hook ba-NAL: the same old BANANA. Every single day, Kai’s lunch is one plain banana: no surprise, no change, nothing new. A lunch that dull and predictable is banal.
The movie’s ending was banal: the hero won, the villain lost, and everyone cheered, just as we expected.
In context Hoping for a fresh insight, the class was disappointed by the speaker’s banal advice: “Work hard, and follow your dreams.”
Similar trite, hackneyed, unoriginal, dull
Opposite original, fresh, novel
From French banal, “common to everyone,” first said of things like a village oven that everyone shared.