platitude, cliche, banality, commonplace, bromide
(noun) a trite or obvious remark
Source: WordNet® 3.1
platitude (plural platitudes)
An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse; a cliché.
Unoriginality; triteness.
A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.
• cliché
• See also saying
Source: Wiktionary
Plat"i*tude, n. Etym: [F., from plat flat. See Plate.]
1. The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language. To hammer one golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude. Motley.
2. A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite, or weak; a truism; a commonplace.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
