Usually means: Overused statement, lacks original thought.
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General (33 matching dictionaries)
  1. platitude: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. platitude: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. platitude: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. platitude: Collins English Dictionary
  5. platitude: Vocabulary.com
  6. Platitude, platitude: Wordnik
  7. platitude: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. platitude: Wiktionary
  9. platitude: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. platitude: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. platitude: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Platitude, platitude: Dictionary.com
  13. platitude: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. platitude: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Platitude (band), Platitude: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Platitude: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. platitude: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. platitude: Rhymezone
  19. platitude, platitude (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. platitude: Free Dictionary
  21. platitude: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. platitude: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. platitude: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. platitude: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. platitude: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. Platitude: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (countable) An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse.
▸ noun:  (countable) A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Flatness; lack of change, activity, or deviation.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Unoriginality; triteness.

Similar:
cliche, commonplace, banality, bromide, homily, platitudinarianism, parody, poncif, platitudinarian, boilerplate, more...

Opposite:
originality, creativity, innovation

Phrases:
pious platitude, false platitude, more...

Adjectives:
innocuous, mere, pious, old, such, empty, moral, obvious, utter, meaningless, ancient


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Similar:
cliche, commonplace, banality, bromide, homily, platitudinarianism, parody, poncif, platitudinarian, boilerplate, more...

Opposite:
originality, creativity, innovation

Phrases:
pious platitude, false platitude, more...

Adjectives:
innocuous, mere, pious, old, such, empty, moral, obvious, utter, meaningless, ancient



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