platitudinous

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˌplætɪˈtjuːdɪnəs/|/-ˈtʃuː-/    美 /ˌplætɪˈt(j)ud(ə)nəs/|/-ɾɪ-/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Characterised by clichés or platitudes.
    — If [Lord George] Bentinck had been reared for office, if, as Wilberforce recommends, he had been harnessed early to official duty, and if he had been sent into Parliament a platitudinous thing, made up of statistics, red tape and priggishness, like Mr. [Benjamin] Disraeli's Tadpole and Taper, we could well understand his strong mind breaking the thralls of official conventionality, and forcing him to become the man he was, armed at all points, ever ready for attack or defence; […]

词形变化

more platitudinous comparative most platitudinous superlative

词源

From platitude + -ous on analogy of other adjectives ending in -tudinous, from Latin -tūdin- + -ous, the oblique stem of -tūdō. Compare platitudinize.
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