platitude

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English - Turkish
basmakalıp laf
yavan söz
platitudinize tatsız laflar söylemek
{i} beylik lâf
{i} bayağılık
soğuk laf
English - English
Unoriginality; triteness
A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting
An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse; a cliché

Beauty, I suppose, opens the heart, extends the consciousness. It is a platitude, of course.

a written or spoken statement that is flat, dull, or commonplace
A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite, or weak; a truism; a commonplace
The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language
: 1 the quality or state of being dull or insipid 2 a banal, trite or stale remark
a trite or obvious remark
disapproval A platitude is a statement which is considered meaningless and boring because it has been made many times before in similar situations. Why couldn't he say something original instead of spouting the same old platitudes?. a statement that has been made many times before and is not interesting or clever - used to show disapproval (plat )
{i} superficiality, state of being commonplace, banality; trite saying, cliche, dull remark
n The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature A thought that snores in words that smoke The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard A fossil sentiment in artificial rock A moral without the fable All that is mortal of a departed truth A demi-tasse of milk-and-mortality The Pope's-nose of a featherless peacock A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought The cackle surviving the egg A desiccated epigram

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