bromide
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bromide
- /ˈbɹəʊ.maɪd/ UK
- /ˈbɹoʊ.maɪd/ US
Where it comes from
From brom- + -ide. First used in the sense “dull person” by American artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist Gelett Burgess.
Figurative sense ("platitude") by extending the medicating sense through the metaphor of pacifying or placating.
noun bromides
- A binary compound of bromine and some other element or radical.
- Any salt of hydrobromic acid.
- 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 w
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A dull person with conventional thoughts.
My adviser at college was a bromide who had not had an original thought in years.
Opposite: sulphite
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A platitude.
We hoped the speech would include reassurances, but instead it was merely one bromide after another.
Similar: platitude, byword, saying, adage, saw, proverb, maxim, apothegm, apophthegm, dictum, gnome, gnomic saying
- A dose of bromide taken as a sedative, or to reduce sexual appetite.
- A print made on bromide paper.
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noun chemistry: binary compound of bromine and another element
| Español | bromuro |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 臭化物 shūkabutsu |
| 中文 | 溴化物 xiùhuàwù |
| हिन्दी | दुराघ्रेय durāghrey |
| Português | brometo |
| Français | bromure |
| Deutsch | Bromid |
| Italiano | bromuro |
| Română | bromură |
| Русский | броми́д bromíd |
noun dull person with conventional thoughts
| Español | pelmazo |
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noun dose of bromide taken as a sedative
| Русский | бром brom |
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