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单词 platitudinary
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platitudinaryadj.

Brit. /ˌplatᵻˈtjuːdᵻn(ə)ri/, /ˌplatᵻˈtʃuːdᵻn(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌplædəˈt(j)udnˌɛri/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: platitude n., English -in- , -ary suffix1.
Etymology: < platitude n. + -in- (see discussion at platitudinarian adj. and n.) + -ary suffix1, after e.g. latitudinary adj. Compare slightly later platitudinarian adj.
rare.
= platitudinarian adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > dull > platitudinous
platitudinous1851
platitudinary1852
platitudinarian1854
platitudinal1870
1852 New Monthly Mag. Oct. 167 It is often desultory, fragmentary, and (are we coining a word?) platitudinary.
1920 Glasgow Herald 2 Apr. 6 At a Queen's Hall Concert the Elgar of the Second Symphony is ‘platitudinary and tedious’.
1933 D. Thomas Let. Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 24 Wordsworth was..the humourless, the platitudinary reporter of Nature in her dullest moods.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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