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The Clue
Yawn-inducing (5 letter answer)
The Answer
BANAL
Tags
Notes
The answer BANAL is common and appears about once every 275 puzzles.
Related Clues
Commonplace
Hackneyed
Humdrum
Insipid
Ordinary
Overdone
Overused
Trite
Unoriginal
Vapid
Devoid of originality
Far from fresh
Hardly scintillating
Highly hackneyed
Ho-hum
Lacking freshness
Quite unoriginal
Very commonplace
Insipid; twice-told
Like "Have a nice day"
Definition
BANAL as an adjective:
1. (banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn) = repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "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'"