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| Main Entry: |
bromide
 [broh-mahyd or, for 1, broh-mid] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | platitude |
| Synonyms: | banality, cliche, commonplace, compound, saw, sedative, stereotype, trite |
| Main Entry: | cliché |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overused, hackneyed phrase |
| Synonyms: | adage, banality, boiler plate, bromide, buzzword, chestnut, commonplace, corn, counterword, familiar tune, motto, old story, platitude, potboiler, prosaism, proverb, rubber stamp, saying, shibboleth, slogan, stale saying, stereotype, threadbare phrase, trite remark, triteness, triviality, truism, vapid expression |
| Antonyms: | coinage, nuance |
| Main Entry: | commonplace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clichéd saying or idea |
| Synonyms: | banality, bromide, chestnut, cliché, corn, inanity, motto, platitude, prosaicism, prosaism, prose, rubber stamp, shallowness, shibboleth, stereotype, tag, triteness, triviality truism |
Example Sentences
- Chen included the bromide regarding the well-meaning employees.
- Some bromide about the literary life being as unfair as the normal one may have to do.
- We continually hear that education is the bromide that will solve everything.
| Main Entry: | platitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dull, overused saying |
| Synonyms: | banality, boiler plate, bromide, buzzword, chestnut, cliché, commonplace, corn, evenness, familiar tune, flatness, hackneyed saying, high camp, hokum, inanity, insipidity, monotony, motto, old chestnut, old story, potboiler, prosaicism, proverb, saw, shibboleth, stereotype, tag*, trite remark, triteness, triviality, truism, vapidity, verbiage |
| Antonyms: | coinage, nuance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sleeping pill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pill to aid sleep |
| Synonyms: | barbiturate, benzodiazepine, bromide, hypnotic, nightcap, sedative, sedative-hypnotic, sleeping tablet, soporific |
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