platitude
C1CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
A remark or statement that is dull and obvious, used as though it were fresh or profound.
The minister's speech offered nothing but platitudes about hard work and hope.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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