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banalize
ba·nal B0051800 (bə-năl′, bā′nəl, bə-näl′)adj. Drearily commonplace and often predictable; trite: "Blunt language cannot hide a banal conception" (James Wolcott). [French, from Old French, shared by tenants in a feudal jurisdiction, from ban, summons to military service, of Germanic origin; see bhā- in Indo-European roots.] ba·nal′ize′ v.ba·nal′ly adv.Usage Note: The pronunciation of banal is not settled among educated speakers of American English, and several variants compete with each other. The pronunciation (bə-năl′), rhyming with canal, was preferred by 58 percent of the Usage Panel in our 2001 survey, while 28 percent favored (bā′nəl), and 13 percent said they used (bə-näl′), a pronunciation that is more common in British English. A number of Panelists admitted to being so vexed by the word that they tended to avoid it in conversation. Nonetheless, all three pronunciations should be considered acceptable.banalize (bəˈnɑːlaɪz) or banalisevb (tr) to make banalTranslationsThesaurusSeebanal |