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Definition of Platitudinal
1. Adjective. Dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality. "Bromidic sermons"
Similar to: Unoriginal
Derivative terms: Corn, Platitude
Definition of Platitudinal
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Platitudinal
Literary usage of Platitudinal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Players and Playwrights I Have Known by John Coleman (1888)
"I had a few leading parts, such . as Master Walter, Joseph Surface, that idiot
Faulk- land, and that platitudinal humbug Peregrine in 'John Bull. ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1858)
"... the writer has the following platitudinaL, depleted, emasculated caricature
of Mr. MICHAEL WALSH'S ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1900)
"... dispenser of ethics as well as a dispenser of laws) read the prisoner a
platitudinal lecture on the evils of setting bad examples. The prisoner smiled. ..."
4. Players and Playwrights I Have Known by John Coleman (1888)
"I had a few leading parts, such . as Master Walter, Joseph Surface, that idiot
Faulk- land, and that platitudinal humbug Peregrine in 'John Bull. ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1858)
"... the writer has the following platitudinaL, depleted, emasculated caricature
of Mr. MICHAEL WALSH'S ..."
6. The English Illustrated Magazine (1900)
"... dispenser of ethics as well as a dispenser of laws) read the prisoner a
platitudinal lecture on the evils of setting bad examples. The prisoner smiled. ..."
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