Meaning

2 senses

  1. (intransitive)To utter one or more platitudes; to make obvious, trivial, or clichéd remarks concerning a topic.

    utter platitudes

  2. (transitive)To express as or reduce to one or more clichés or truisms.

Origin

From platitude + -ize on analogy of other adjectives ending in -tudinize, from Latin -tūdi

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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Forms

platitudinizes, platitudinizing, platitudinized, platitudinized
Base formplatitudinize · to platitudinize
3rd person singularplatitudinizes
Present participleplatitudinizing
Past simpleplatitudinized
Past participleplatitudinized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyplatitudinize
he, she, itplatitudinizes

Past simpleLesson

all personsplatitudinized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave platitudinized
he, she, ithas platitudinized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill platitudinize

Synonyms

1 synonyms
trivialize

Word family

2 related words
Derivedplatitudinizationplatitudinizer

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
platinumplatitudeplatonicplatoonplatter
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