platitudinous

3 definitions found

platitudinous - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Platitudinous \Plat`i*tu"di*nous\, a.
     Abounding in platitudes; of the nature of platitudes;
     uttering platitudes. -- Plat`i*tu"di*nous*ness, n.
     [1913 Webster]

platitudinous - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  platitudinous
      adj 1: dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or
             originality; "bromidic sermons" [syn: bromidic,
             corny, platitudinal, platitudinous]

platitudinous - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "platitudinous":
     aphoristic, axiomatic, back-number, banal, bewhiskered, bromidic,
     common, commonly known, commonplace, corny, crisp, current,
     cut-and-dried, epigrammatic, fade, familiar, formulaic,
     formulistic, fusty, gnomic, hackney, hackneyed, household,
     moth-eaten, musty, notorious, old hat, overworked, pithy, pointed,
     proverbial, public, pungent, sententious, set, square, stale,
     stereotyped, stock, succinct, talked-about, talked-of, terse,
     threadbare, timeworn, trite, truistic, universally admitted,
     universally recognized, unoriginal, warmed-over, well-kenned,
     well-known, well-recognized, well-understood, well-worn,
     widely known, worn, worn thin