PLATITUDE Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

platitude

noun

ˈpla-tə-ˌtüd

Definition of platitude

as in cliché

an idea or expression that has been used by many people "blondes have more fun" is a silly platitude

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Recent Examples of platitude The second was that, along with the platitudes about resilience, attendees were unusually honest about the Gulf’s predicament. — Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 4 June 2026 Not the word kindness, not the platitudes. — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2026 The process is so slow that a City Council committee held a hearing earlier this month essentially to turn up the heat on administration officials, who offered no explanation for the molasses-like contracting process other than platitudes. — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026 But behind the pomp and platitudes, Putin is also facing Xi in a much weaker position than during his last visit to Beijing in September. — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 20 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for platitude

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Noun

There’s a truism that all models are wrong, but some are useful.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026
This is certainly true—and a rather banal truism.

— The Atlantic, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026

Definition of truism

Noun

The fire contained compounds from more than two dozen chemical families, including dangerous amounts of bromide, a naturally occurring element that can irritate the skin and mucus membranes.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 29 June 2026
The bromide has been debunked, but there is power — and delight — in making coffee shop drinks at home.

— Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 25 June 2026

Definition of bromide

Noun

And yet for God’s sake, just look at the man—at his dispiriting attempts at humor, his weirdly off-putting outfits, his incessant posting of banalities and faux profundities and extreme-right disinformation on social media.

— Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026
But together, the whole is blander than the sum of its parts—a subtle banality humans can often implicitly sense.

— Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 29 June 2026

Definition of banality

Noun

Wolff was only the eighth woman to drive a Formula 1 car (four more have done it since); the role, a now-commonplace one that includes driving the simulator during Grand Prix weekends to inform trackside strategy, was created for her.

— Danielle McNally, InStyle, 28 May 2026
The videos are often integrated into larger montages of drone strikes, underscoring how commonplace these drones have become for Russian forces.

— Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026

Definition of commonplace

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