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'"

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. 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"