platitudinal

[plat-i-tood-n-uh l, -tyood-]

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adjective

platitudinous.

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Origin of platitudinal

1865–70; platitude + -inal (see -al¹), on the model of L derivatives of abstract nouns in -tūdō, stem -tūdin- (cf. latitudinal)

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The conversation, owing to the intervention of other of the guests, became general and platitudinal.
The Devil's Paw
E. Phillips Oppenheim