Antonyms for platitudes

Grammar : Noun

Spell : plat-i-tood, -tyood

Phonetic Transcription : ˈplæt ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud

Definition of platitudes

Origin : 1812, "dullness," from French platitude "flatness, vapidness" (late 17c.), from Old French plat "flat" (see plateau (n.)); formed on analogy of latitude, etc. Meaning "a flat, dull, or commonplace remark" is recorded from 1815. Related: Platitudinous. Hence platitudinarian (n.), 1855; platitudinize (1867).

noun dull, overused saying

Example sentences :

We should weary our readers with a detail of the platitudes which ensued.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 » by Various

Of course the conversation in Platitudes must be connected and coherent.
Extract from : « Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 » by Various

These are the platitudes and falsehoods in which history is disguised.
Extract from : « Menexenus » by Plato

The platitudes in which he lives, and moves, and has his being have no foundation in fact.
Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

These dicta are all tried and true, but they have the failings common to platitudes.
Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper

It was while Jones was airing these platitudes that Paliser entered the room.
Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus

Had he come down to Fairholme to listen to the platitudes of virtuous love?
Extract from : « Tristram of Blent » by Anthony Hope

In the past it has been an armory of platitudes or a forecast of punishments.
Extract from : « A Preface to Politics » by Walter Lippmann

Emma found again in adultery all the platitudes of marriage.
Extract from : « Madame Bovary » by Gustave Flaubert

For, as has been well said, "There is no copyright in platitudes."
Extract from : « The Lowest Rung » by Mary Cholmondeley

Synonyms for platitudes

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