Bromide

Definition of Bromide

Bro´mide
n.1.(Chem.) A compound of bromine with a positive radical.
2.A person who is conventional and commonplace in his habits of thought and conversation.
The bromide conforms to everything sanctioned by the majority, and may be depended upon to be trite, banal, and arbitrary.
- Gelett Burgess.
3.a conventional or trite saying; - often used in the phrase "old bromide".

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abstraction, chestnut, cliche, 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, 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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