platitudinous
[plat-i-tood-n-uh s, -tyood-]
adjective
characterized by or given to platitudes.
of the nature of or resembling a platitude.
Origin of platitudinous
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Related Words for platitudinous
banal, bathetic, bromidic, chain, common, commonplace, corny, drained, dull, exhausted, flat, hackneyed, hokey, jejune, moth-eaten, musty, ordinary, overused, overworked, pedestrianExamples from the Web for platitudinous
Contemporary Examples of platitudinous
Everyone this side of Charles Krauthammer agrees that Romney was general and platitudinous and not that engaged.
Historical Examples of platitudinous
These sentiments have to the modern ear a platitudinous ring.
Shelley, Godwin and Their CircleH. N. Brailsford
This mild, platitudinous rebuke came when all the damage was done.
Australian WritersDesmond Byrne
It was a period of the flat, stale, platitudinous, and bourgeois.
EgoistsJames Huneker
All this is so platitudinous that I feel ashamed to write it; but then, how can one avoid platitudes without avoiding truth?
Creative IntelligenceJohn Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
Nevertheless Martin liked him better than the platitudinous bank cashier.
Martin EdenJack London