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bromide
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bromide has 2 senses
- bromide(n = noun.substance) Array - any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs; Array is a kind of halide
- bromide(n = noun.communication) banality, cliche, commonplace, platitude - a trite or obvious remark; Array is a kind of comment, input, remark, truism
has particulars: hydrogen bromide, methyl bromide, silver bromide
CIDE DICTIONARY
bromide, n.
- A compound of bromine with a positive radical. [1913 Webster]
- A person who is conventional and commonplace in his habits of thought and conversation. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]"The bromide conforms to everything sanctioned by the majority, and may be depended upon to be trite, banal, and arbitrary." [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- a conventional or trite saying; -- often used in the phrase “old bromide”. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bromide, n.
1 Chem. any binary compound of bromine.
2 Pharm. a preparation of usu. potassium bromide, used as a sedative.
3 a trite remark.
1 Chem. any binary compound of bromine.
2 Pharm. a preparation of usu. potassium bromide, used as a sedative.
3 a trite remark.
Idiom
bromide paper a photographic printing paper coated with silver bromide emulsion.
THESAURUS
bromide
abstraction, banality, chestnut, cliche, commonplace, commonplace expression, corn, familiar tune, general idea, generalization, generalized proposition, glittering generality, hackneyed expression, hackneyed saying, lieu commun, locus communis, old joke, old saw, old song, old story, platitude, prosaicism, prosaism, prose, reiteration, retold story, rubber stamp, shibboleth, stereotyped saying, sweeping statement, tag, tired cliche, trite saying, triticism, truism, twice-told tale
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