n. a trite or obvious remark

adj. conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal; "serve wine at normal room temperature"; "normal diplomatic relations"; "normal working hours"; "normal word order"; "normal curiosity"; "the normal course of events"

adj. obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"

adj. not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines"

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'"

n. the feeling of being bored by something tedious

n. the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"

adj. diffusing warmth and friendliness; "an affable smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial greeting"; "a genial host"

adj. following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"

adj. rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"

adj. (often followed by `to') in the habit of or adapted to; "accustomed to doing her own work"; "I've grown accustomed to her face"

adj. widely accepted as true or worthy; "the accepted wisdom about old age"; "a received moral idea"; "Received political wisdom says not; surveys show otherwise"- Economist

adj. "lectured in a familiar style"

adj. lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"

adj. suited for everyday use; "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes"

adj. conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal; "serve wine at normal room temperature"; "normal diplomatic relations"; "normal working hours"; "normal word order"; "normal curiosity"; "the normal course of events"

adj. commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting"

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

adj. easy to understand or use; "user-friendly computers"; "a consumer-friendly policy"; "a reader-friendly novel"

adj. frequently encountered; "a frequent (or common) error is using the transitive verb `lay' for the intransitive `lie'";

adj. occurring at fixed times or predictable intervals; "made her routine trip to the store"

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

adj. lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"

adj. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"

adj. producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit was especially wearing"

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

adj. exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category; "a typical American girl"; "a typical suburban community"; "the typical car owner drives 10,000 miles a year"; "a painting typical of the Impressionist school"; "a typical romantic poem"; "a typical case of arteritis"

adj. not worthy of notice

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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

adj. without untoward incident or disruption: "a placid existence"; "quiet times"

adj. lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best"

adj. lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting; "women dressed in nondescript clothes"; "a nondescript novel"

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

adj. found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant

adj. being neither good nor bad; "an indifferent performance"; "a gifted painter but an indifferent actor"; "her work at the office is passable"; "a so-so golfer"; "feeling only so-so"; "prepared a tolerable dinner"; "a tolerable working knowledge of French"

adj. not special in any way; "run-of-the-mill boxing"; "your run-of-the-mine college graduate"; "a unexceptional an incident as can be found in a lawyer's career"

adj. flat and uninspiring

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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