Platitudinize

Quick meaning: Platitudinize is a verb meaning (intransitive) To utter one or more platitudes; to make obvious, trivial, or clichéd remarks concerning a topic.

Meaning

(intransitive) To utter one or more platitudes; to make obvious, trivial, or clichéd remarks concerning a topic.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To express as or reduce to one or more clichés or truisms.

Example Sentences

Mendelssohn had misunderstood, platitudinized, and misinterpreted the holy concept of revelation.

“It's better to have to struggle when you're young, I think, than when you're older,” she platitudinized.

He does not attempt lofty flights of eloquence or try to disguise thought under ponderous platitudinising sentences.

A modern campaign, not just in America, is so fine-tuned, so honed and platitudinised, that mistakes are the only way of bringing it into focus.

Word Forms

• platitudinizes
• platitudinizing
• platitudinized
• platitudise

Synonyms for platitudinize

Depending on context, synonyms include trivialize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include commonplace, blah, blather, blat, prattle, cant.

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