platitudinal

platitudinal
/plat'i toohd"n euhl, -tyoohd"-/, adj.
platitudinous.
[1865-70; PLATITUDE + -inal (see -AL1), on the model of L derivatives of abstract nouns in -tudo, s. -tudin- (cf. LATITUDINAL)]

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