Synonyms for platitudes
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : plat-i-tood, -tyood |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈplæt ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud |
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Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for platitudes
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