BROMIDE Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

bromide

noun

ˈbrō-ˌmīd

Definition of bromide

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an idea or expression that has been used by many people a newspaper editorial offering the timeworn bromide that people should settle their differences peacefully

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Recent Examples of bromide Other testing by the state’s environmental quality department found elevated levels of heavy metals commonly found in oil field wastewater including barium and bromide. — Nick Bowlin, ProPublica, 18 May 2026 While these songs might appear to be somewhat straightforward EBM that wear their politics on their latex sleeve, there’s a level of ambiguity at work that moves Kissing Luck Goodbye past its own bromides and into deeper artistic territory. — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 16 Apr. 2026 Disruption without construction Instructors burned out with the current situation endure a barrage of repetitive bromides. — ArsTechnica, 13 Apr. 2026 The bromide has it that a liberal is a person who won’t take his own side in an argument. — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bromide

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Noun

Today, Instagram unveiled a refresh of its wordmark, accompanied by the usual bland corporate platitudes these kinds of announcements are always packaged with.

— Aurich Lawson, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2026
Not everybody needs to spend the rest of their life totally abstinent with a cup of shitty coffee in a Styrofoam cup regurgitating platitudes.

— James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of platitude

Noun

Of course, when a person live-streams long enough, banality can eventually give way to horror.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2026
For all the women looking up at me to think of me not as a crying heap on a toilet whose baby never latched but as someone who found meaning in all of our daily banalities.

— Danielle Parker, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of banality

Noun

But most politicians are pretty easily replaced, a truism that Moreno reinforced by going public.

— Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026
There’s a long-standing truism in the world of physical attacks that defenders need to succeed every time, but attackers need to succeed just once.

— Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of truism

Noun

Wolff was only the eighth woman to drive a Formula 1 car (four more have done it since); the role, a now-commonplace one that includes driving the simulator during Grand Prix weekends to inform trackside strategy, was created for her.

— Danielle McNally, InStyle, 28 May 2026
The videos are often integrated into larger montages of drone strikes, underscoring how commonplace these drones have become for Russian forces.

— Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026

Definition of commonplace

Noun

Its real interest, though, seems to lie beyond both DC Universe lore and the procedural tropes of the rural murder investigations that occupy most of its runtime.

— Judy Berman, Time, 14 Aug. 2026
Their emotional appeals drew on longstanding cultural tropes that cast trans and gender-diverse people as deviant or dangerous, amplifying public anxieties about trans rights, despite a lack of evidence for such claims.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2026

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