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Bromide
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- 1 A binary compound of bromine and some other element or radical.
- 2 a trite or obvious remark wordnet
- 3 A binary compound of bromine and some other element or radical.; Any salt of hydrobromic acid.
- 4 any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs wordnet
- 5 The anionic form of a bromine atom.
"“How fortunate Buddha, Mahomed, and Shakespeare were that their kind relations and doctors did not cure them of their ecstasy and their inspiration,” said Kovrin. “If Mahomed had taken bromide for his nerves, had worked only two hours out of the twenty-four, and had drunk milk, that remarkable man would have left no more trace after him than his dog. […]”"
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- 6 A dull person with conventional thoughts. broadly
"My adviser at college was a bromide who had not had an original thought in years."
- 7 A platitude. broadly
"We hoped the speech would include reassurances, but instead it was merely one bromide after another."
- 8 A dose of bromide taken as a sedative, or to reduce sexual appetite. dated
- 9 A print made on bromide paper.
Etymology
From brom- + -ide. First used in the sense “dull person” by Gelett Burgess. Figurative sense ("platitude") by extending the medicating sense through the metaphor of pacifying or placating.
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