Meaning of CLICHE
Pronunciation: | | klee'shey
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| Definition: | | [n] a trite or obvious remark |
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| Synonyms: | | banality, bromide, commonplace, platitude |
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| See Also: | | comment, remark, truism | |
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| Related Terms: | | abstraction, banality, banalness, bathetic, bromide, byword, catch phrase, catchword, chestnut, cliched, commonness, commonplace, commonplace expression, commonplaceness, corn, corniness, cry, fad word, familiar tune, familiarness, fustiness, general idea, generalization, generalized proposition, glittering generality, hack, hackneyed, hackneyed expression, hackneyed saying, hackneyedness, lieu commun, locus communis, mustiness, old joke, old saw, old song, old story, pet expression, platitude, platitudinousness, prosaicism, prosaism, prose, reiteration, retold story, rubber stamp, shibboleth, slogan, squareness, stale, staleness, stereotype, stereotyped saying, sweeping statement, tag, timeworn, tired cliche, trite saying, triteness, triticism, truism, twice-told tale, unoriginality, vogue word |
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