That is not just a platitude. I really mean it.
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Platitude
//ˈplatɪˌtjuːd//
Synonyms for "platitude" (64 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (19)
Related words (32)
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4 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
11 entriesderived
1 entriesderived from
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7 entriesTranslations
76 translations across 24 languages.
Armenian
2 entries- ծեծված արտահայտություն noun (often-quoted saying)
- տափակություն noun (unoriginality; triteness)
Bulgarian
2 entries- баналност noun (unoriginality; triteness)
- изтъркана фраза noun (often-quoted saying)
Catalan
1 entries- vacuïtat noun (often-quoted saying)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 乏味 noun (unoriginality; triteness)
- 老生常談 /老生常谈 noun (often-quoted saying)
- 陳腐 /陈腐 noun (unoriginality; triteness)
- 陳詞濫調 /陈词滥调 noun (often-quoted saying)
Czech
2 entries- banalita noun (unoriginality; triteness)
- klišé noun (often-quoted saying)
Dutch
4 entries- cliché noun (often-quoted saying)
- cliché noun (unoriginality; triteness)
- platitude noun (often-quoted saying)
- platitude noun (unoriginality; triteness)
Esperanto
3 entries- banalaĵo noun (often-quoted saying)
- banaleco noun (unoriginality; triteness)
- kliŝo noun (often-quoted saying)
Finnish
3 entries- klisee noun (often-quoted saying)
- latteus noun (often-quoted saying)
- latteus noun (unoriginality; triteness)
French
1 entries- platitude noun (often-quoted saying)
Galician
1 entries- tópico noun (often-quoted saying)
German
4 entries- Abgedroschenheit noun (unoriginality; triteness)
- Banalität noun (unoriginality; triteness)
- Binse noun (unoriginality; triteness)
- Binsenwahrheit noun (unoriginality; triteness)
Greek
2 entries- κοινοτυπία noun (often-quoted saying)
- κοινοτυπία noun (unoriginality; triteness)
Hungarian
4 entries- banalitás noun (unoriginality; triteness)
- elkoptatottság noun (unoriginality; triteness)
- frázis noun (often-quoted saying)
- klisé noun (often-quoted saying)
Icelandic
3 entries- gömul tugga noun (often-quoted saying)
- innantómur frasi noun (often-quoted saying)
- margþvæld tugga noun (often-quoted saying)
Italian
2 entries- banalità noun (unoriginality; triteness)
- luogo comune noun (often-quoted saying)
Japanese
2 entries- 在り来りの発言 noun (often-quoted saying)
- 陳腐な言葉 noun (often-quoted saying)
Macedonian
1 entries- флоскула noun (often-quoted saying)
Māori
1 entries- (kupu) rārahu noun (often-quoted saying)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- alminnenlighet noun (often-quoted saying)
- platthet noun (often-quoted saying)
Persian
1 entries- حرف کلیشهای noun (often-quoted saying)
Portuguese
4 entries- banalidade noun (unoriginality; triteness)
- chavão noun (often-quoted saying)
- clichê noun (often-quoted saying)
- lugar-comum noun (often-quoted saying)
Russian
3 entries- бана́льность noun (unoriginality; triteness)
- изби́тая фра́за noun (often-quoted saying)
- трюи́зм noun (unoriginality; triteness)
Spanish
4 entries- lugar común noun (often-quoted saying)
- obviedad noun (unoriginality; triteness)
- platitud noun (often-quoted saying)
- platitud noun (unoriginality; triteness)
Swedish
4 entries- banalitet noun (unoriginality; triteness)
- floskel noun (often-quoted saying)
- plattityd noun (often-quoted saying)
- plattityd noun (unoriginality; triteness)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
These poems might nearly all have been written by one man, were it possible for one man to vary from absolute platitude to something like genius, so homogeneous is their tone: everywhere do we meet the same simplicity of diction struggling with the same complication and subtlety of thought, the same abstract speculation strangely mingled with most individual and personal pathos.
Source: tatoeba (11732508)
Beauty, I suppose, opens the heart, extends the consciousness. It is a platitude, of course.
Source: wiktionary
Semiramis was the first woman to invent eunuchs and women have had sympathy for them ever since; […] and women can tell them what they can't tell other men. And Ivor, suddenly cheered by laughing at his absurd platitudes, and finding himself by the door, was going from the room.
Source: wiktionary
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