PLATITUDINOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does platitudinous mean? 

• PLATITUDINOUS (adjective)
  The adjective PLATITUDINOUS has 1 sense:

1. dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality

  Familiarity information: PLATITUDINOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLATITUDINOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality

Synonyms:

bromidic; corny; platitudinal; platitudinous

Context example:

bromidic sermons

Similar:

unoriginal (not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual)

Derivation:

platitude (a trite or obvious remark)

 Context examples 

Nevertheless Martin liked him better than the platitudinous bank cashier.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

To Mr. Higginbotham such a dinner was advertisement of his worldly achievement and prosperity, and he honored it by delivering platitudinous sermonettes upon American institutions and the opportunity said institutions gave to any hard-working man to rise—the rise, in his case, which he pointed out unfailingly, being from a grocer's clerk to the ownership of Higginbotham's Cash Store.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Personally, he was an intellectual moralist, and more offending to him than platitudinous pomposity was the morality of those about him, which was a curious hotchpotch of the economic, the metaphysical, the sentimental, and the imitative.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)