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Main Entry:
banality [buh-nal-i-tee, bey-]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: common saying
Synonyms: adage, boiler, buzzword, chestnut, cliché, corn, dullsville, familiar tune, high camp, hokum, old chestnut, old saw, plate, platitude, prosaicism, prosaism, saw, trite phrase, trivia, triviality, truism
Antonyms: coinage, nuance, original saying
Main Entry: cereal
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: edible grain
Synonyms: bran, breakfast food, corn, grain, oats, rice, rye, wheat
Main Entry: cliché
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overused, hackneyed phrase
Synonyms: adage, banality, boiler plate, bromide, buzzword, chestnut, commonplace, corn, counterword, familiar tune, motto, old story, platitude, potboiler, prosaism, proverb, rubber stamp, saying, shibboleth, slogan, stale saying, stereotype, threadbare phrase, trite remark, triteness, triviality, truism, vapid expression
Antonyms: coinage, nuance
Example Sentences
  • It's easy to get nicely browned, super-crunchy corn on a stove.
  • US manufacturers are exploring an innovative way of making clothing, furniture upholstery, and other products from corn.
  • The environmental case for ethanol from corn continues to weaken.
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Main Entry: commonplace
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: clichéd saying or idea
Synonyms: banality, bromide, chestnut, cliché, corn, inanity, motto, platitude, prosaicism, prosaism, prose, rubber stamp, shallowness, shibboleth, stereotype, tag, triteness, triviality truism
Main Entry: feed
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: food
Synonyms: animal food, barley, corn, fodder, forage, grain, grass, grub, hay, meal, pasturage, provender, provisions, silage, straw, vittles
Main Entry: fodder
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: animal feed
Synonyms: animal food, barley, corn, food, forage, grain, grass, grub, hay, meal, pasturage, provender, provisions, silage, straw, vittles
Main Entry: grain
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: seed, piece
Synonyms: atom, bit, cereal, corn, crumb, drop, fragment, granule, grist, iota, jot, kernel, mite, modicum, molecule, morsel, mote, ounce, particle, pellet, scintilla, scrap, scruple, smidgen, spark, speck, tittle, trace, whit
Main Entry: platitude
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dull, overused saying
Synonyms: banality, boiler plate, bromide, buzzword, chestnut, cliché, commonplace, corn, evenness, familiar tune, flatness, hackneyed saying, high camp, hokum, inanity, insipidity, monotony, motto, old chestnut, old story, potboiler, prosaicism, proverb, saw, shibboleth, stereotype, tag*, trite remark, triteness, triviality, truism, vapidity, verbiage
Antonyms: coinage, nuance
Main Entry: seed
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginning, source
Synonyms: berry, bud, cell, conceit, concept, conception, core, corn, ear, egg, embryo, germ, grain, image, impression, inkling, kernel, notion, nucleus, nut, ovule, ovum, particle, rudiment, semen, spark, sperm, spore, start, suspicion
Antonyms: effect, end, ending, result
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