Lapalissade

Quick meaning: Lapalissade is a noun meaning An obvious, self-evident truth, especially humorously so; a tautology or truism.

Meaning

An obvious, self-evident truth, especially humorously so; a tautology or truism.

Example Sentences

Despite their affection for Gavarni, they dismissed as a lapalissade his oft-repeated statement that science had killed the notion of God

His display of the virtues Dickens has popularized is a real fraud. Nothing can show that he wants to abide by them. That he only loves himself is a lapalissade.

In a certain way our theory is so obvious that it appears to us as a “lapalissade”. The cell is a network of phospholipid membranes and one of their chief functions is to keep certain substrates and enzymes apart.

Word Forms

• lapalissades

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include truism, tautologism, commonplace, paradox, postulation, self-contradiction.

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