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banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn

adj. 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'"

common

adj. to be expected; standard; "common decency"

typical

adj. conforming to a type; "the typical (or normal) American"; "typical teenage behavior"

insignificant, undistinguished

adj. not worthy of notice

perennial, recurrent, repeated

adj. recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements"

habitual

adj. made a norm or custom or habit; "his habitual practice was to eat an early supper"; "her habitual neatness"

frequent

adj. coming at short intervals or habitually; "a frequent guest"; "frequent complaints"

conversant

adj. well informed about or familiar with; usu followed by "with": "conversant with business trends"

aware(p), cognizant, cognisant

adj. (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception; "was aware of his opponent's hostility"; "became aware of her surroundings"; "aware that he had exceeded the speed limit"

side by side

adj. closely related or associated; "a city in which communism and democracy had to live side by side"

matter-of-fact, prosaic

adj. not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and unimaginative essay"

stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical, unimaginative

adj. lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; "stereotyped phrases of condolence"; "even his profanity was unimaginative"

uninteresting

adj. arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement; "a very uninteresting account of her trip"

moldy, mouldy, musty

adj. covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor"

adapted

adj. changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose; "seeds precisely adapted to the area"; "instructions altered to suit the children's different ages"

bromidic, corny, platitudinal, platitudinous

adj. dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons"

cliched, ready-made

adj. repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases"

imitative, copied

adj. marked by or given to imitation; "acting is an imitative art"; "man is an imitative being"

derivative, derived

adj. resulting from or employing derivation; "a derivative process"; "a highly derivative prose style"

duplicate

adj. identically copied from an original; "a duplicate key"

cold, stale, dusty, moth-eaten

adj. lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race"; "stale news"

slavish

adj. blindly imitative; "a slavish copy of the original"

traced

adj. derived by copying something else; especially by following lines seen through a transparent sheet

original

adj. being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of; "a truly original approach"; "with original music"; "an original mind"

fresh

adj. recently made, produced, or harvested; "fresh bread"; "a fresh scent"; "fresh lettuce"

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