platitudinous

plat·i·tude (pl

-t

, -ty

)

1. A trite or banal remark or statement, especially one expressed as if it were original or significant. See Synonyms at cliché.

2. Lack of originality; triteness.

[French, from plat, flat, from Old French; see plate.]

plati·tudi·nous (-t

s, -ty

-), plati·tudi·nal (-t

l, -ty

-) adj.

plati·tudi·nous·ly adv.

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Adj.

platitudinous - dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons"

corny, platitudinal, bromidic

unoriginal - not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham

Translations

platitudinous [ˌplætɪˈtjuːdɪnəs] ADJ [speech] → lleno de lugares comunes; [speaker] → aficionado a los lugares comunes, que peca por exceso de tópicos

platitudinous

adj (pej) → banal; speech also → platt

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Simplification
stale
stereotyped

He winced, but Joan rattled on with the platitudinous originality of youth.

Adventure by London, Jack View in context

Higginbotham such a dinner was advertisement of his worldly achievement and prosperity, and he honored it by delivering platitudinous sermonettes upon American institutions and the opportunity said institutions gave to any hard-working man to rise - the rise, in his case, which he pointed out unfailingly, being from a grocer's clerk to the ownership of Higginbotham's Cash Store.

Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context

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