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platitude

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈplatɪˌtjuːd/Part of speech nounSorted adeilpttuStarts with PEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a trite or obvious remark

Word origin

Borrowed from French platitude, from plat (“flat”).

Used in a sentence

  • Beauty, I suppose, opens the heart, extends the consciousness. It is a platitude, of course.
  • For most of the past three decades, the natural world was treated almost as an afterthought by world leaders. If discussed at all, it was with platitudes about the need to save polar bears and tigers.
  • The synthesis which he helped to effect was so successful that this aspect of his work escaped notice in the last century: all that Britomart stands for was platitude to our fathers. It is platitude no longer.

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