platitude

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈplatɪˌtjuːd/|/ˈplatɪˌtʃuːd/    美 /ˈplætɪˌt(j)ud/|/ˈplætɪˌtʃʉːd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse. countable
    — Beauty, I suppose, opens the heart, extends the consciousness. It is a platitude, of course.
  2. A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting. countable
    — The synthesis which he helped to effect was so successful that this aspect of his work escaped notice in the last century: all that Britomart stands for was platitude to our fathers. It is platitude no longer.
  3. Flatness; lack of change, activity, or deviation. uncountable
    — The former figures the typical prairie landscape-poet who stops at the correction line (which itself literally denies the platitude of flatness) to notice the ever-present wind.
  4. Unoriginality; triteness. uncountable
    — seemly platitude, flat-footed ordinariness, and well-enacted upper working class respectability cancel out any turpitude, exhilarating tension or satanic glamour a casino might be expected to have.

词形变化

platitudes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
platitudeness
相关词
Platitude Pete platitudinal platitudinally platitudinarian platitudinarianism platitudinisation platitudinise platitudiniser platitudinization platitudinize platitudinizer platitudinous

词源

Borrowed from French platitude, from plat (“flat”).
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary