banalities
Worn out expressions
Banalities are remarks, ideas, or sentiments so overused and unoriginal that they lack any real meaning or interest.
The term carries more weight than simply calling something boring—it suggests a tiredness from repetition, the kind of predictable observations people make about weather or traffic.
The speech was full of banalities about following your dreams.
A single such remark is a banality, though the plural form appears more often.
Trite moral remarks
- truismsSelf-evident statements
- bromidesOverused trite expressions
- chestnutsEdible tree seeds
- commonplacesOverfamiliar remarks or observations
stock phrases · empty words · conventional wisdom · boilerplate · old saws · homilies
Insignificant matters
- ordinarinessState of being unremarkable
- everydaynessState of being ordinary
- small talkPolite trivial conversation
- dullnessLack of stimulation
tedium · monotony · blandness · mediocrity · conventionality · sameness · dreariness
platitudes
Trite moral remarks
commonplaces · stock phrases · empty words · conventional wisdom · boilerplate · old saws · homilies
trivialities
Insignificant matters
- ordinarinessState of being unremarkable
- everydaynessState of being ordinary
- small talkPolite trivial conversation
dullness · tedium · monotony · blandness · mediocrity · conventionality · sameness · dreariness
banalitiesoriginalities
Qualities of freshness
novelties · coinages · neologisms · innovations · inventions
banalitiesprofundities
Matters of great depth
insights · epiphanies · revelations · wisdom · depths