bromide

(noun)

noun

1. any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs

Definition categories: substance, halide

2. a trite or obvious remark

Similar word(s): banality, cliche, commonplace, platitude

Definition categories: communication, comment, input, remark, truism

Sentences with bromide as a noun:

- My adviser at college was a bromide who had not had an original thought in years.

- We hoped the speech would include reassurances, but instead it was merely one bromide after another.