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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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

2. a trite or obvious remark;
[syn: platitude, cliche, banality, commonplace, bromide]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bromide n 1: any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs 2: a trite or obvious remark [syn: platitude, cliche, banality, commonplace, bromide]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

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