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platitude 音标拼音: [pl'ætɪt ,ud] n. 单调,平凡,陈腐 单调,平凡,陈腐 platitude n 1: a trite or obvious remark [ synonym: { platitude}, { cliche}, { banality}, { commonplace}, { bromide}] 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] 41 Moby Thesaurus words for " platitude": 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
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