Platitude is an English word with synonyms like cliche or banality. Below you'll find 6 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Platitude meaning
- An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse.
- A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.
- Flatness; lack of change, activity, or deviation.
Using Platitude
- The main meaning on this page is: An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse. | A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting. | Flatness; lack of change, activity, or deviation.
- Useful related words include: cliche, banality, commonplace, bromide.
- In the example corpus, platitude often appears in combinations such as: platitude and.
Context around Platitude
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Platitude
- In this selection, "platitude" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, champion, inspirational, trap and banality stand out and add context to how "platitude" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an inspirational platitude and into the platitude trap. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "platitude" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with platitude
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It was more than a platitude and it had context. (10 words)
Psychologist Marny Lishman says those around Lines fell into “the platitude trap”. (12 words)
Every few feet, a wall decal or poster offered an inspirational platitude. (12 words)
Written and directed by Dan Fogelman (creator of TV’s “This Is Us”), started with a pointless homophobic joke and went down from there, wasting a wonderful cast on a leaden script laden with platitude and coincidence. (37 words)
But the champion platitude more than ever is each team claiming their prospects are: 1) more advanced, and/or 2) greater in number and/or 3) going to make a difference this year. (33 words)
What underlies the weasel rhetorical manifesto promises and pledges, an ever flowing gushing literary of platitude, banality and cliché. (19 words)
Example sentences (6)
But the champion platitude more than ever is each team claiming their prospects are: 1) more advanced, and/or 2) greater in number and/or 3) going to make a difference this year.
Psychologist Marny Lishman says those around Lines fell into “the platitude trap”.
What underlies the weasel rhetorical manifesto promises and pledges, an ever flowing gushing literary of platitude, banality and cliché.
Every few feet, a wall decal or poster offered an inspirational platitude.
Written and directed by Dan Fogelman (creator of TV’s “This Is Us”), started with a pointless homophobic joke and went down from there, wasting a wonderful cast on a leaden script laden with platitude and coincidence.
It was more than a platitude and it had context.
Common combinations with platitude
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: