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How to pronounce “platitude”
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Pronunciation guide for platitude
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of platitude with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 4 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Emilio Estevez
It was a platitude that the movie couldn't sustain.
- Definition summary
- (countable) An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse.
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How to pronounce platitude
Emilio Estevez
It was a platitude that the movie couldn't sustain.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “platitude”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (countable) An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse.
- (countable) A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.
- (uncountable) Flatness; lack of change, activity, or deviation.
- (uncountable) Unoriginality; triteness.
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