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platitude

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Platitude  \Plat"i*tude\,  n.  [F.,  from  plat  flat.  See  {Plate}.] 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  platitude 
  n  :  a  trite  or  obvious  remark  [syn:  {cliche},  {banality},  {commonplace}, 
  {bromide}] 
 
  From  THE  DEVIL'S  DICTIONARY  ((C)1911  Released  April  15  1993)  [devils]: 
 
  PLATITUDE,  n.  The  fundamental  element  and  special  glory  of  popular 
  literature.  A  thought  that  snores  in  words  that  smoke.  The  wisdom  of 
  a  million  fools  in  the  diction  of  a  dullard.  A  fossil  sentiment  in 
  artificial  rock.  A  moral  without  the  fable.  All  that  is  mortal  of  a 
  departed  truth.  A  demi-tasse  of  milk-and-mortality.  The  Pope's-nose 
  of  a  featherless  peacock.  A  jelly-fish  withering  on  the  shore  of  the 
  sea  of  thought.  The  cackle  surviving  the  egg.  A  desiccated  epigram.




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