platitudinal

[plat-i-tood-n-uhl, -tyood-]

adjective

1. platitudinous.

Word History and Origins

Origin of platitudinal¹

First recorded in 1865–70; platitude + -inal adjective suffix, on the model of Latin derivatives of abstract nouns in -tūdō, stem -tūdin-; -al ¹. latitudinal

Example Sentences

Goodell’s testimony to the committee in June was a lot of platitudinal verbal litter.

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Despite the ubiquity of self-help literature, mindfulness trainings, and religious rhetoric that reframes platitudinal advice that we should “stop and smell the roses,” your critics prefer to invalidate your enthusiasm.

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Things that had seemed drearily theoretical, dry, axiomatic, platitudinal, showed themselves to be great generalizations from a torrent of human effort and mortal endeavour.

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The conversation, owing to the intervention of other of the guests, became general and platitudinal.

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