Platitudinous (Adjective)
Meaning
Dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The motivational speaker's platitudinous words of wisdom, repeated verbatim at every corporate event, had become background noise to most employees.
- After reading a dozen similar stories with equally platitudinous titles, Sarah felt that her patience had been sufficiently strained.
- Despite its bombastic opening paragraph, the self-help book was reduced to merely rephrasing trite maxims and sounding off on blandly platitudinous prose.
- Liz raised an eyebrow as the committee head reeled off his characteristically platitudinous introductions for yet another internal promotion, long-winded without containing an original idea.
- Ultimately, Dr. Bennett criticized Smith for employing excessively platitudinous dialogue to populate a set of interesting literary protagonists who thereby wasted considerable authorial thought in reaching profoundly tedious verbiage.