English-Thai Dictionary

platitude

N ความ ซ้ำซาก  ความจำ เจ  kwam-sam-sak

 

platitude

N คำ พูดซ้ำซาก  banality kam-phud-sam-sak

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PLATITUDE

Plat "i *tude, n. Etym: [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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

platitude

plat i tude |ˈplatiˌt (y )o͞od ˈplædəˌt (j )ud | ▶noun a remark or statement, esp. one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful: she began uttering liberal platitudes. DERIVATIVES plat i tu di nize |ˌplatiˈt (y )o͞odnˌīz |verb ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from French, from plat ‘flat. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

platitude

platitude |ˈplatɪtjuːd | ▶noun a remark or statement, especially one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful: she began uttering liberal platitudes. DERIVATIVES platitudinize |-ˈtjuːdɪnʌɪz |(also platitudinise ) verb ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from French, from plat ‘flat ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

platitude

platitude noun boring us with his platitudes: cliché, truism, commonplace, banality, old chestnut, bromide, inanity, banal /trite /hackneyed /stock phrase.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

platitude

platitude noun a string of empty platitudes: cliché, truism, commonplace, hackneyed /trite /banal /overworked saying, banality, old chestnut; bromide, inanity, tag.

 

Duden Dictionary

Platitüde

Pla ti tü de Substantiv, feminin , die |platiˈtyːd (ə )|frühere Schreibung für Plattitüde

 

French Dictionary

platitude

platitude n. f. nom féminin Caractère de ce qui est plat, sans intérêt. : La platitude d ’un cours, d ’un film, d ’une remarque.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

platitude

plat i tude /plǽtət j ùːd /名詞 ｟かたく ｠1 C 陳腐な言葉, (使い古された )決まり文句 .2 U 平凡 ; 陳腐 ; 単調 .