formulaic

adjective

Being of no special quality or type: average, common, commonplace, cut-and-dried, garden, garden-variety, indifferent, mediocre, ordinary, plain, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, stock, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable. See good/bad, usual/unusual.

formulaic, characterized by the repetition of certain stock phrases, known as formulae. Many orally composed poems, especially epics, are formulaic in that they repeatedly use the same epithets and the same forms of introduction to episodes and speeches. In another sense, a work may be called formulaic if it conforms in a predictable way to the established patterns of a genre.

The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: characterized by or in accordance with some formula