Banal vs Tedious - What's the difference?
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Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.
Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
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As adjectives the difference between banal and tedious
is that banal is common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh while tedious is boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.banal
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(en-adj)Synonyms
* cliche, * corny * everyday * hackneyed * prosaic * trite * vapid * meh * See alsoAntonyms
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* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=A work is objectively tedious' when it contains the defect in question; that is to say, when its author has no perfectly clear thought or knowledge to communicate. For if a man has any clear thought or knowledge in him, his aim will be to communicate it, and he will direct his energies to this end; so that the ideas he furnishes are everywhere clearly expressed. The result is that he is neither diffuse, nor unmeaning, nor confused, and consequently not ' tedious .}}
citation, passage=The other kind of tediousness is only relative: a reader may find a work dull because he has no interest in the question treated of in it, and this means that his intellect is restricted. The best work may, therefore, be tedious' subjectively, ' tedious .}}