different between platitude vs platitudinous

English

Etymology

From French platitude, from plat (“flat”), from Vulgar Latin *plattus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (platús).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?plat?tju?d/, /?plat?t?u?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?plæt?t(j)ud/

Noun

platitude (countable and uncountable, plural platitudes)

1. (countable) An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse; a cliché.
2. (countable) A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.
3. (uncountable) Flatness; lack of change, activity, or deviation.
4. (uncountable) Unoriginality; triteness.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:platitude.

Synonyms

• cliché
• See also Thesaurus:saying

Related terms

Translations

References

• platitude at OneLook Dictionary Search
• platitude in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Dutch

Etymology

From French platitude.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla?ti?tyd?/

Noun

platitude f (plural platitudes, diminutive platitudetje n)

1. platitude, cliché

French

Etymology

plat (“flat”) +? -itude

Noun

platitude f (uncountable)

1. flatness
   • 1921, Henri-René Lenormand, Le Simoun[3]:

     La chebka. Une immense platitude de pierres. Une sorte de néant jaunâtre, sous un ciel sulfureux.

     The Sebkha. A vast expanse of rocks. A sort of yellowish nothingness under a sulfurous sky.

2. (figuratively) blandness; lack of originality

Further reading

• “platitude” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Noun

platitude f (plural platitudes)

1. platitude (an overused saying)

   Synonym: clichê

2. platitude; triteness; unoriginality

   Synonym: banalidade

English

Etymology

platitude +? -in- +? -ous, probably modelled after multitudinous.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?plæt??tju?d?n?s/, /-?t?u?-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?plæt??t(j)ud(?)n?s/, /-??-/
• Hyphenation: pla?ti?tud?in?ous

Adjective

platitudinous (comparative more platitudinous, superlative most platitudinous)

1. Characterised by clichés or platitudes.

Derived terms

• platitudinously
• platitudinousness

Related terms

• platitude
• platitudinal
• platitudinarian
• platitudinize
• platitudise

Further reading

• platitude on Wikipedia.Wikipedia