noun
Meaning 1
The quality of being banal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bathos
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
banality
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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bənăl'ĭti
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/bəˈnælɪti/
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rhymes with -ælɪti
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bānăl'ĭti
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/beɪˈnælɪti/
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CMU ARPABET: B AH0 N AE1 L IH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Something which is banal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A feudal right or obligation, especially the obligation for a peasant to grind grain at the lord's mill, or the profits accruing from such rights.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, rare, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
a trite or obvious remark
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: platitude, cliche, commonplace, bromide
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: remark, comment, input, truism
History
Etymology
From French banalité, from banal, equivalent to banal + -ity.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: бана́лност (banálnost) — quality of being banal
- Catalan: banalitat — quality of being banal
- Esperanto: banaleco — quality of being banal
- Finnish: banaalius — quality of being banal
- French: banalité — quality of being banal
- Galician: banalidade — quality of being banal
- German: Banalität — quality of being banal
- Italian: banalità — quality of being banal
- Japanese: 陳腐さ (chinpusa) — quality of being banal
- Kyrgyz: тамтыгы чыккандык (tamtıgı cıkkandık) — quality of being banal
- Latvian: banāls — quality of being banal
- Persian: بیمزگی — quality of being banal
- Polish: banalność — quality of being banal
- Portuguese: banalidade — quality of being banal
- Romanian: banalitate — quality of being banal
- Russian: бана́льность (banálʹnostʹ) — quality of being banal
- Spanish: banalidad — quality of being banal
- Turkish: banallik — quality of being banal
- Bulgarian: бана́лност (banálnost) — something which is banal
- Catalan: banalitat — something which is banal
- Czech: banalita — something which is banal
- Finnish: banaliteetti — something which is banal
- French: banalité — something which is banal
- Galician: banalidade — something which is banal
- German: Banalität — something which is banal
- Hungarian: közhely — something which is banal
- Italian: banalità — something which is banal
- Polish: banał — something which is banal
- Polish: banalność — something which is banal
- Portuguese: banalidade — something which is banal
- Romanian: banalitate — something which is banal
- Russian: бана́льность (banálʹnostʹ) — something which is banal
- Spanish: banalidad — something which is banal