platitude
Meanings
Plural: platitudes
Noun
- a trite or obvious remark
- An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse.
- A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.
- Flatness; lack of change, activity, or deviation.
- Unoriginality; triteness.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French platitude, from plat (“flat”).
Synonyms
adage, apophthegm, apothegm, banality, bromide, byword, cliche, cliché, commonplace, dictum, gnome, gnomic saying, mantra, maxim, paroemia, proverb, saw, saying, truism
Scrabble Score: 12
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