platitudinous
Adjective: 1. Characterized by being dull, unoriginal, and overly familiar: Describes language, ideas, or statements that are boring because they are commonplace, lack originality, and are repeated too often, often while trying to sound important or insightful. 2. Containing or consisting of platitudes: Filled with remarks or sentiments that are overused and have lost their original impact or meaning due to excessive repetition.
The adjective platitudinous is used to criticize speech, writing, or ideas that are trite and clichéd. It implies a judgment that the content is not only boring but also intellectually lazy or insincere, often because the speaker or writer is using well-worn phrases instead of original thought. It is a formal word typically found in literary, academic, or critical contexts.
- The critic dismissed the politician's speech as a series of platitudinous statements about hope and change, lacking any concrete policy.
- After reading several platitudinous self-help books, she longed for advice that felt genuine and specific to her situation.
- His platitudinous remarks about "the journey being the destination" did little to comfort the team after their loss.
- "Platitudinous rhetoric": A common collocation describing political or ceremonial language that is full of empty, overused phrases intended to sound impressive but which convey little substantive meaning.
- The debate was frustrating, filled with platitudinous rhetoric but devoid of real solutions.
- Platitude (noun): The clichéd, dull, or trite statement or remark itself.
- "Every cloud has a silver lining" is a common platitude.
- Platitudinarian (noun, rare): A person who frequently uses platitudes.
- Bromidic (adjective): Very similar in meaning to platitudinous; dull and tiresome due to being commonplace.
- Clichéd: Overused and predictable.
- Trite: Lacking freshness or originality due to overuse.
- Banal: So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.
- Hackneyed: Overused and consequently lacking in impact.
- Stale: No longer fresh or interesting.
- Original: Fresh and inventive; not derived from something else.
- Profound: Having deep meaning or insight.
- Innovative: Featuring new methods; advanced and original.
- Unconventional: Not based on or conforming to what is generally done or believed.
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dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality
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bromidic sermons
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