platitudinous

1. 1.

   dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality

   “bromidic sermons”

   Synonymsbromidiccornyplatitudinal

   Similarunoriginal

Questions about platitudinous

What does platitudinous mean?

platitudinous means "dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality".

How many syllables are in platitudinous?

platitudinous has 5 syllables: pla-ti-tu-di-nous. The stress falls on "tu".

What is another word for platitudinous?

Close synonyms include bromidic, corny, platitudinal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is platitudinous a common word?

platitudinous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.