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Platitudinize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

verb-intransitive. To use platitudes in speaking or writing.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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

v. To express as or reduce to one or more clichés or truisms.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

verb-intransitive. To utter platitudes or truisms.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To utter platitudes; make dull, stale, or insipid remarks.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. utter platitudes

Word Usage

"His voice, according to Sadd, was "not good enough and not bad enough" to settle his fate, so he continued with the singing lessons he couldn't afford and, as I would platitudinize to his father, "after all, it's his life.""

Verb Form

platitudinized platitudinizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

verbalise give tongue to express verbalize utter

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

commonplace