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
25 November 2024
(noun) infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America
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