| NOUN | substance | bromide | any of the salts of hydrobromic acid |
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| communication | bromide, platitude, cliche, banality, commonplace | a trite or obvious remark |
| Sounds | brow'may.d | |
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| Rhymes | abide ... Yuletide: 172 rhymes with ayd... | |
| Meaning | Any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs. | |
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| Narrower | hydrogen bromide | A colorless gas that yields hydrobromic acid in solution with water |
| methyl bromide | A poisonous gas or liquid / liquid (CH3Br) used to fumigate rodents, worms, etc. | |
| silver bromide | A bromide that darkens when exposed to light | |
| Broader | halide | A salt of any halogen acid |
| Spanish | bromuro | |
| Catalan | bromur | |
| Meaning | A trite or obvious remark. | |
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| Synonyms | platitude, cliche, banality, commonplace | |
| Broader | remark, comment, input | A statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information |
| truism | An obvious truth | |
| Spanish | banalidad, cliché, fruslería, futilidad, lugar común, nimiedad, perogrullada, tópico, trivialidad | |
| Catalan | banalitat, fotesa, futilesa, futilitat, nimietat, tòpic, trivialitat | |
| Adjectives | bromidic | given to uttering bromides |
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