banal
Rather than listen to his sister chattering banally to her friend on the phone, Josh got up and left the room.
The film had a banally predictable ending, but audiences loved it so much it was a box-office smash.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Bore and bored
banal
be (stuck) in a grooveidiom
be watching the clockidiom
bend
blah
boil
bore
bore the ass off someoneidiom
bored
languidly
listless
listlessly
listlessness
outgrow
rut
uncompelling
underemployed
underwhelm
underwhelmed
undynamic
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Tedious and uninspiring