platitudinize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To utter one or more platitudes; to make obvious, trivial, or clichéd remarks concerning a topic. intransitive
    — He does not attempt lofty flights of eloquence or try to disguise thought under ponderous platitudinising sentences.
  2. To express as or reduce to one or more clichés or truisms. transitive
    — Mendelssohn had misunderstood, platitudinized, and misinterpreted the holy concept of revelation.

词形变化

platitudinizes present,singular,third-person platitudinizing participle,present platitudinized participle,past platitudinized past platitudise alternative

词汇关系

近义词
trivialize
衍生词
platitudinization platitudinizer

词源

From platitude + -ize on analogy of other adjectives ending in -tudinize, from Latin -tūdin- + -ize, the oblique stem of -tūdō. Compare platitudinous.
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