platitudinous

American  

[plat-i-tood-n-uhs, -tyood-] / ˌplæt ɪˈtud n əs, -ˈtyud- /

adjective

1. characterized by or given to platitudes.

2. of the nature of or resembling a platitude.

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Other Word Forms

• nonplatitudinous adjective
• nonplatitudinously adverb
• platitudinously adverb
• platitudinousness noun
• unplatitudinous adjective
• unplatitudinously adverb
• unplatitudinousness noun

Etymology

Origin of platitudinous

1855–60; platitude + -inous ( platitudinal, -ous )

Example Sentences

Some might see that statement as platitudinous - obvious - but he's viewed by those I spoke to as having been a success at the big tech firm.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

As the battle between these cartoon villains and Nate goes to court, the writing becomes painfully platitudinous, skating around the real controversies surrounding the domestication of intelligent primates.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2022

Rivera could do only, perhaps, what he was good at: working, fulfilling commissions, and organizing human types and platitudinous dogma into impressively complex, large-scale compositions.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2022

The responsibility of a photographer is not only to capture these platitudinous concepts of truth and beauty in artmaking, or the ways in which a subject might see or imagine themselves to be.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2021

Its Olympian tone made it a perennial touchstone at those political occasions requiring platitudinous wisdom.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis