'Platitude' definitions:
Definition of 'platitude'
(from WordNet)
noun
Definition of 'Platitude'
From: GCIDE
- Platitude \Plat"i*tude\, n. [F., from plat flat. See Plate.]
- 1. The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language. [1913 Webster]
- To hammer one golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude. --Motley. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite, or weak; a truism; a commonplace. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'platitude'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstraction,
- banality,
- bromide,
- chestnut,
- cliche,
- commonplace,
- commonplace expression,
- corn,
- familiar tune,
- general idea,
- generalization,
- generalized proposition,
- glittering generality,
- hackneyed expression,
- hackneyed saying,
- inanity,
- insipidity,
- lieu commun,
- locus communis,
- mawkishness,
- old joke,
- old saw,
- old song,
- old story,
- prosaicism,
- prosaism,
- prose,
- reiteration,
- retold story,
- rubber stamp,
- sentimentality,
- shibboleth,
- stereotyped saying,
- sweeping statement,
- tag,
- tired cliche,
- trite saying,
- triticism,
- truism,
- twice-told tale,
- vapidity