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Platitude

Platitude Meaning & Definition
Platitude Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Platitude?

[n] a trite or obvious remark

Synonyms | Synonyms for Platitude: banality | bromide | cliche | commonplace

Related Terms | Find terms related to Platitude: abstraction | banality | bromide | chestnut | cliche | commonplace | commonplace expression | corn | familiar tune | general idea | generalization | generalized proposition | glittering generality | hackneyed expression | hackneyed saying | inanity | insipidity | lieu commun | locus communis | mawkishness | old joke | old saw | old song | old story | prosaicism | prosaism | prose | reiteration | retold story | rubber stamp | sentimentality | shibboleth | stereotyped saying | sweeping statement | tag | tired cliche | trite saying | triticism | truism | twice-told tale | vapidity

See Also | comment | remark | truism

Platitude In Webster's Dictionary

\Plat"i*tude\, n. [F., from plat flat. See {Plate}.] 1. The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language. To hammer one golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude. --Motley. 2. A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite, or weak; a truism; a commonplace.

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