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lapalissade^¹

/ləˌpælɪˈsɑːd/

Rhymes with -ɑːd

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From French lapalissade, equivalent to Jacques de la Palice (a French nobleman and military officer) + -ade; see Lapalissian for more.

noun lapalissades · Lapalissade

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.

Lapalissade^²

noun Lapalissades

Alternative letter-case form of lapalissade

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@misc{lapalissade_2026,
  title = {lapalissade},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lapalissade},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}