platitudinous

American  

[plat-i-tood-n-uhs, -tyood-] / ˌplæt ɪˈtud n əs, -ˈtyud- /

adjective

1. characterized by or given to platitudes.

2. of the nature of or resembling a platitude.

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Other Word Forms

• nonplatitudinous adjective
• nonplatitudinously adverb
• platitudinously adverb
• platitudinousness noun
• unplatitudinous adjective
• unplatitudinously adverb
• unplatitudinousness noun

Etymology

Origin of platitudinous

1855–60; platitude + -inous ( platitudinal, -ous )

Example Sentences

Rivera could do only, perhaps, what he was good at: working, fulfilling commissions, and organizing human types and platitudinous dogma into impressively complex, large-scale compositions.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2022

Rather than speaking that day of national renewal, a platitudinous staple of presidential inaugurals, Joe Biden focused on national reunification.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2022

The responsibility of a photographer is not only to capture these platitudinous concepts of truth and beauty in artmaking, or the ways in which a subject might see or imagine themselves to be.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2021

A platitudinous corporate statement tries and fails to frame this in a way that sounds appealing to people who might want to rent their moving trucks.

From Slate • Jan. 2, 2020

Its Olympian tone made it a perennial touchstone at those political occasions requiring platitudinous wisdom.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis