platitude

suomi-englanti sanakirja

platitude englannista suomeksi

1. latteus

0. Substantiivi

1. klisee, latteus

2. latteus

platitude englanniksi

1. (senseid) An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse.

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2. (quote-book)

3. (quote-book) and women can tell them what they can't tell other men. And Ivor, suddenly cheered by laughing at his absurd platitudes, and finding himself by the door, was going from the room.

4. (quote-journal)

5. (senseid) A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.

6. {{quote-book|en|year=1963|author=James R. Kreuzer; Lee Cogan|title=Modern Writings on Major English Authors|publisher=Ardent Media|page=109

7. {{quote-book|en|year=1993|author=Harold B. Segel|title=The Vienna Coffeehouse Wits, 1890-1938|publisher=Purdue University Press|isbn=9781557530332|page=210

8. {{quote-book|en|date=2012-09-16|author=Mathias Risse|title=On Global Justice|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9781400845507|page=149

9. (senseid) Flatness; lack of change, activity, or deviation.

10. (senseid) Unoriginality; triteness.

11. (l), cliché

12. flatness

13. {{quote-book|fr|year=1921|author=Henri-René Lenormand|title=Le Simoun|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mmdVAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA62

14. blandness, triteness, unoriginality

15. platitude, banality

16. (l) (gloss)

17. (l); triteness; unoriginality