Other forms: platitudes
A platitude is a dull remark repeated as if it were wisdom. A speech full of platitudes.
It is true and useless at once, which is exactly what makes it irritating. A platitude is safe to say, which is why it fills any speech nobody wanted to make.
1nounplatitudeA dull remark repeated as if it were wisdom.
“Every paragraph ended in a platitude and nothing was actually said.”
platitude is a remark.
French platitude comes from plat, flat, so a platitude is a flat remark.
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Borrowed from French platitude, from plat (“flat”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA