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.