platitudinize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To utter one or more platitudes; to make obvious, trivial, or clichéd remarks concerning a topic.
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "He does not attempt lofty flights of eloquence or try to disguise thought under ponderous platitudinising sentences."
- "If we keep our knowledge strictly to ourselves we know exactly how we stand, and that if there has been any leakage, it had been from some other source. But I need not platitudinize to an experienced and learned counsel."
- "The people in this show don't talk like normal people—they lecture, they argue, they negotiate, they strategize, they philosophize, they platitudinize, they deliver speeches about destiny, liberty, and bravery."
- "Mendelssohn had misunderstood, platitudinized, and misinterpreted the holy concept of revelation."
- "“It's better to have to struggle when you're young, I think, than when you're older,” she platitudinized."
- "A modern campaign, not just in America, is so fine-tuned, so honed and platitudinised, that mistakes are the only way of bringing it into focus."
Etymology
From platitude + -ize on analogy of other adjectives ending in -tudinize, from Latin -tūdin- + -ize, the oblique stem of -tūdō. Compare platitudinous.
Origin
- Source language: Latin