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Platitudinous describes speech or writing that is full of platitudes: old, flat remarks that sound wise but say little. A platitudinous speech is one where the speaker keeps offering tired lines instead of a real thought. It is a formal, word — you would use it in a review or an essay, not about a friend's chat over lunch, unless you meant to sting. It is platitude plus -ous, full of that quality, built on the same pattern as other long that end in -tudinous.
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組成From platitude + -ous, on the pattern of other adjectives ending in -tudinous, from Latin -tūdin- + -ous.
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- platitudethe tired remark itself
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
platitudinousadj/ˌplætɪˈtjuːdɪnəs/
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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; […]
- “House Decoration” is written with somewhat less verbosity and with a good deal more taste and common sense. But it is, however detailed in its suggestions, equally platitudinous where it is sensible.
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