How to pronounce“platitude”in English
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Definitions of “platitude”
An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse.
“Beauty, I suppose, opens the heart, extends the consciousness. It is a platitude, of course.”
A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.
“The synthesis which he helped to effect was so successful that this aspect of his work escaped notice in the last century: all that Britomart stands for was platitude to our fathers. It is platitude no longer.”
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