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platitudinous, a.|plætɪˈtjuːdɪnəs|
[f. as prec. + -ous; cf. multitudinous.]
Characterized by or of the nature of a platitude; full of platitudes; of a person, uttering or writing platitudes.
1862Illustr. Lond. News 11 Jan. 51/1 The bulk of the speech is somewhat platitudinous. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library I. 232 Schiller's excellent but remarkably platitudinous peasants in ‘William Tell’. 1882Traill Sterne v. 56 The Sermons are..of the most commonplace character, platitudinous with the platitudes of a thousand pulpits.
Hence platiˈtudinously adv., platiˈtudinousness.
1858Sat. Rev. 28 Aug. 201/1 The consequences are..an extreme tenuity of thought and an excessive platitudinousness of expression. 1892Daily News 21 May 2/2 His orations are enormously, portentously, platitudinously dull. |