Synonyms for cliché
kliˈʃeɪ, klɪ-cliché

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1. clichénoun

   Synonyms:
   platitude

2. clichénoun

   Something, most often a phrase or expression, that is overused or used outside its original context, so that its original impact and meaning are lost. A trite saying; a platitude.

   Kidnapping the love interest during a film is a bit of a cliché.

   Synonyms:
   platitude

3. clichénoun

   A stereotype (printing plate).

   Synonyms:
   platitude

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. platitude, cliche, banality, commonplace, bromidenoun

   a trite or obvious remark

   Synonyms:
   banality, commonplace, bromide, cliche, platitude

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1. • Remark
   • Truism

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1. List of paraphrases for "cliché":

   cliché, stereotype, platitude, clichéd, truism, commonplace, snapshot, photograph

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1. Jessica Pegula:

   Its been extremely gratifying. This is what you work for: to win tournaments. It sounds cliche, (but) the journey makes it all that much sweeter, this week, though, it felt different. This final, I felt like I was just ready.

2. Peter Jackson:

   All these cliché, black and white, jerky kind of figures that we don't pay much attention to anymore... it suddenly turns them into human beings.

3. Matthew Fitzpatrick:

   The feeling’s out of this world, it is so cliche, but it’s stuff you dream of as a kid. Yeah, to achieve it, I can retire a happy man tomorrow.

4. Sienna Miller:

   People sort of complain about the pace. Friends of mine from London find it really intense, but I thrive in that kind of environment, it’s sort of cliche?, but it’s motivating and inspiring. It feels incredibly open and boundaryless. You can barely speak English and be a New Yorker. New York takes anyone, accepts everyone.

5. Daily Mail reviewer Quentin Letts:

   Figures in black balaclavas assist in the humiliation. With mistress-of-stunts Katie Mitchell directing, we have, from the start, ambient noise, honking klaxons, cage doors clanking, fizzing strip-lights -- no cliche is spared.