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When you claim that something is banal, you do not like it because you think it is ordinary, dull, commonplace, and boring.
Something insipid is dull, boring, and has no interesting features; for example, insipid food has no taste or little flavor.
If you describe something as pedestrian, you think that it is ordinary and not interesting.
Something prosaic is dull, boring, and ordinary.
If you are suffering from tedium, you are bored.
A trite remark or idea is so overused that it is no longer interesting or novel.
Something vapid is dull, boring, and/or tiresome.
Noun
doggerel
DAW-ger-uhl
Context
Zander was trying to write good poetry with some literary value, but his professor scoffed at it, calling it doggerel. Zander really didn’t understand why his teacher proclaimed that his verse was mere doggerel, or awkward and simply bad poetry. Then Zander remembered that he really never understood what made great literary poetry in the first place, so he shrugged his shoulders and continued writing his doggerel, which he thought was at least worthy of comic verse, even if not written particularly well.
Dagger! Relieve Me! Oh, relieve me from reading any more of my poetry class's doggerel! Give me a dagger and get it over with!
Examples
[_Master of Reality_] _is_ a rocking, churning addition to the long line of defiant, self-affirmative and certainly a little defensive songs that goes right back to the earliest whap and wail of rock ‘n’ roll. It’s naive, simplistic, repetitive, absolute doggerel—but in the tradition. Chuck Berry sang in more repressed times.
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Rolling Stone
From the first roll of the dice, the youngsters realize that Jumanji has more in common with Ouija than with Monopoly. The game pieces not only move of their own volition, but cryptic doggerel materializes in Jumanji's emerald centerpiece.
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The Washington Post
Word Ingredients
From a Middle English root word meaning “poor, worthless.” This word is also related to “dog;” doggerel, indeed, is only worthy for “dogs.”
Word Theater
Dr. Doggerel's Youtube Video A good example of doggerel.
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Related Words
banal ·
insipid ·
pedestrian ·
prosaic ·
tedium ·
trite ·
vapid ·
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Word Variants
doggerel
adj
→
comic; poor
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