Word Meanings - PLATITUDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language. To hammer one golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude. Motley. 2. A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite,

Additional info about word: PLATITUDE

1. The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language. To hammer one golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude. Motley. 2. A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite, or weak; a truism; a commonplace.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PLATITUDE)

• Truism
• Commonplace
• platitude

Related words: (words related to PLATITUDE)

• TRUISM
  An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism. Trifling truisms clothed in great, swelling words. J. P. Smith.
• TRUISMATIC
  Of or pertaining to truisms; consisting of truisms.
• COMMONPLACE
  Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
• COMMONPLACENESS
  The quality of being commonplace; commonness.
• PLATITUDE
  1. The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language. To hammer one golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude. Motley. 2. A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite,
• ALTRUISM
  Regard for others, both natural and moral; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness; -- opposed to egoism or selfishness. J. S. Mill.
• UNTRUISM
  Something not true; a false statement. A. Trollope.