Bromide \Bro"mide\, n.
1. (Chem.) A compound of bromine with a positive radical.
[1913 Webster]
2. A person who is conventional and commonplace in his habits
of thought and conversation. [Slang]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The bromide conforms to everything sanctioned by the
majority, and may be depended upon to be trite,
banal, and arbitrary. --Gelett
Burgess.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. a conventional or trite saying; -- often used in the
phrase "old bromide".
[PJC] Bromide paper
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bromide
n 1: any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; used as a sedative
2: a trite or obvious remark [syn: platitude, cliche, banality,
commonplace]
3: a sedative in the form of sodium or potassium bromide
WordNet (r) 2.0
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Bromide, OK (town, FIPS 9150)
Location: 34.41782 N, 96.49429 W
Population (1990): 162 (89 housing units)
Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Bromide, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 163
Housing Units (2000): 80
Land area (2000): 0.669281 sq. miles (1.733430 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.669281 sq. miles (1.733430 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09150
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 34.417909 N, 96.494569 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bromide, OK
Bromide
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
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