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| commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind. |
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| lacking in vitality, imagination, distinction, etc.; commonplace; prosaic or dull: a pedestrian commencement speech. |
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| devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite: a banal and sophomoric treatment of courage on the frontier. |
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| lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale: the trite phrases in his letter. |
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| made commonplace or trite; stale; banal: the hackneyed images of his poetry. |
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| lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor; insipid; flat: vapid tea. |
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| without contents; empty: the vacuous air. |
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| common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative. |
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| without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality. |
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| firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion, etc.; not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty. |
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| unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding. |
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| refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible. |
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| not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate: an intractable disposition. |
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| pertinacious, persistent, stubborn, or obstinate. |
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| lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory: the ephemeral joys of childhood. |
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| going rapidly over something, without noticing details; hasty; superficial: a cursory glance at a newspaper article. |
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| not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory. |
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| understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite: poetry full of esoteric allusions. |
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| beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding; esoteric: recondite principles. |
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| hard to understand; recondite; esoteric: abstruse theories. |
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| known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure; esoteric: She knew a lot about sanskrit grammar and other arcane matters. |
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| to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve; meliorate. |
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| to make easier to endure; lessen; mitigate: to alleviate sorrow; to alleviate pain. |
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| to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain. |
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| to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate. |
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| to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate. |
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