Boring Flashcards
Fatuous
foolish or inane, especially in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly.
unreal; illusory.
Banal
devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite: a banal and sophomoric treatment of courage on the frontier.
Hackneyed
made commonplace or trite; stale; banal: the hackneyed images of his poetry.
Insipid
without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality.
without sufficient taste to be pleasing, as food or drink; bland: a rather insipid soup.
Mundane
common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative.
Pedestrian
lacking in vitality, imagination, distinction, etc.; commonplace; prosaic or dull: a pedestrian commencement speech.
Platitude
a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.
the quality or state of being flat, dull, or trite: the platitude of most political oratory.
Prosaic
commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
of or having the character or form of prose rather than poetry.
Quotidian
daily: a quotidian report.
usual or customary; everyday: quotidian needs.
ordinary; commonplace: paintings of no more than quotidian artistry.
Trite
lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale: the trite phrases in his letter.
characterized by hackneyed expressions, ideas, etc.: The commencement address was trite and endlessly long.
Archaic. rubbed or worn by use.