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adjective
Etymology: platitude + -inous (as in multitudinous)
Date: 1853
having the characteristics of a platitude ; full of platitudes <platitudinous remarks> • platitudinously adverb
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
platitudinous
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Platitudinous — Plat i*tu di*nous, a. Abounding in platitudes; of the nature of platitudes; uttering platitudes. {Plat i*tu di*nous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
platitudinous — index ordinary, pedestrian, prosaic, trite Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
platitudinous — adjective platitudinous political sound bites Syn: hackneyed, overworked, overused, clichéd, banal, trite, commonplace, well worn, stale, tired, unoriginal; informal corny, old hat Ant: original … Thesaurus of popular words
platitudinous — platitude ► NOUN ▪ a remark or statement that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful. DERIVATIVES platitudinize (also platitudinise) verb platitudinous adjective. ORIGIN French, from plat flat … English terms dictionary
platitudinous — platitudinously, adv. platitudinousness, n. /plat i toohd n euhs, tyoohd /, adj. 1. characterized by or given to platitudes. 2. of the nature of or resembling a platitude. [1855 60; PLATITUDE + inous (see PLATITUDINAL, OUS)] * * * … Universalium
platitudinous — adjective Prone to using cliches or platitudes … Wiktionary
platitudinous — Synonyms and related words: aphoristic, axiomatic, back number, banal, bewhiskered, bromidic, common, commonly known, commonplace, corny, crisp, current, cut and dried, epigrammatic, fade, familiar, formulaic, formulistic, fusty, gnomic, hackney … Moby Thesaurus
platitudinous — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. commonplace, common, trite; see dull 4 , trivial , unimportant . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Without freshness or appeal because of overuse: banal, bromidic, clichéd, commonplace, corny, hackneyed, musty,… … English dictionary for students
platitudinous — plat·i·tu·di·nous || ‚plætɪ tuËdnÉ™s / tjuËdɪn adj. superficial, cursory, shallow; commonplace, banal, trite … English contemporary dictionary
platitudinous — a. Stale, trite, flat, dull, insipid … New dictionary of synonyms
