- platitude as a noun:
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platitude
noun
1 platitude
A trite or obvious remark.
synonyms: banality, bromide, cliche, commonplace.
Roget 517: meaninglessness, unmeaningness etc. adj.†; scrabble. empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.]; a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing;" sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. " nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; ... show more
Roget 843: dullness, heaviness, flatness; infestivity† etc. 837, stupidity etc. 499; want of originality; dearth of ideas. prose, matter of fact; ... show more
Dutch: open deur, algemeenheid, alledaagsheid, banaliteit, cliché, gemeenplaats, platitude, sjablone, sjabloon
Polish: frazes, oczywistość, frazeologia, slogan, formułka, komunał, oklepanka, banał, liczman, ogólnik
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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