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lapalissades

lapalissades is the plural of lapalissade.

Meaning of lapalissade

Noun

lapalissade (plural lapalissades)

  1. An obvious, self-evident truth, especially humorously so; a tautology or truism.
    • In a certain way our theory is so obvious that it appears to us as a “lapalissade”. The cell is a network of phospholipid membranes and one of their chief functions is to keep certain substrates and enzymes apart.1961, Robert John Cecil Harris, The Initial Effects of Ionizing Radiations on Cells: A Symposium Held in Moscow, October, 1960, Supported by UNESCO and the IAEA and Sponsored by the Academy of...

Noun capitalized: Lapalissades

Lapalissades

  1. (plural) plural of Lapalissade

Questions about lapalissades

What is lapalissades the plural of?
Lapalissades is the plural of lapalissade.
What part of speech is lapalissades?
Lapalissades is a noun.

Words near lapalissades in the dictionary

  1. Lapaglia
  2. Lapaglias
  3. Lapal
  4. lapalapa
  5. lapalissade
  6. lapalissades
  7. Lapalisse
  8. lapalissian
  9. lapalissianly
  10. LAPAN
  11. Lapans

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