The Only Use of
banal
in
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around—they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.†
p. 21.6banal = uninteresting due to a lack of anything original or unusual
Definition:
uninteresting due to a lack of anything original or unusual
Pronunciation: Banal is correctly pronounced differently by various educated speakers of American English.