bromide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
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Etymology: 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.
Base: brom
Inflected forms:
form: bromides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A binary compound of bromine and some other element or radical.
pos: noun
gloss: A binary compound of bromine and some other element or radical.
pos: noun
gloss: The anionic form of a bromine atom.
pos: noun
examples: “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. […]”
gloss: A dull person with conventional thoughts.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: My adviser at college was a bromide who had not had an original thought in years.
The bromide conforms to everything sanctioned by the majority, and may be depended upon to be trite, banal, and arbitrary.
gloss: A platitude.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: We hoped the speech would include reassurances, but instead it was merely one bromide after another.
No organicist metaphor, no irrelevant bromide that "we are all part of one another," must be permitted to obscure this basic fact.
Gascoigne was annoyed by this. ‘Well, I wish you luck, Mr. Lauderback, in bringing Mr. Carver to justice,’ he said.
‘Spare the bromide,’ Lauderback snapped. ‘Talk to me plain.’
Certainly not Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, who is clearly the Rupert Murdoch of his generation. He’s always justifying his cowardly choices with vacuous bromides about “free speech,” but he’s obviously just in it for the money — no matter how much his platform is used to destroy our democracy.
gloss: A dose of bromide taken as a sedative, or to reduce sexual appetite.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A print made on bromide paper.
pos: noun
Related words: cliché
Derived words: acetyl bromide
acyl bromide
allylmagnesium bromide
aluminium bromide
aluminum bromide
americium bromide
ammonium bromide
barium bromide
benzyl bromide
beryllium bromide
bibenzonium bromide
bismuth bromide
bromide developer
bromide emulsion
bromide of potassium
bromide paper
bromide print
bromide printer
bromide printing
bromidic
bromidiom
bromidism
bromo
bromoil
cadmium bromide
caesium bromide
cesium bromide
calcium bromide
cerium bromide
cerous bromide
cetrimide
chlorobromide
chromium bromide
clidinium bromide
cobalt bromide
copper bromide
curium bromide
cyanogen bromide
decamethonium bromide
deuterium bromide
diazobromide
dibromide
domiphen bromide
dysprosium bromide
ethidium bromide
ethyl bromide
ferric bromide
germanium bromide
glycopyrronium bromide
gold bromide
hafnium bromide
hexabromide
hexamethonium bromide
hydrobromide
hydrogen bromide
indium bromide
iodine bromide
iodobromite
iron bromide
lithium bromide
lithium bromide-dihydrate
manganese bromide
manganous bromide
mercury bromide
methyl bromide
monobromide
nickel bromide
niobium bromide
octabromide
otilonium bromide
oxobromide
oxybromide
oxyphenonium bromide
pentabromide
perbromide
phenacyl bromide
phenylmagnesium bromide
phosphorous bromide
platinum bromide
polybromide
potassium bromide
prifinium bromide
protobromide
radium bromide
rubidium bromide
selenium bromide
silicon bromide
silver bromide
sodium bromide
stannic bromide
strontium bromide
strontium bromide-hexahydrate
sulfur bromide
sulphur bromide
tantalum bromide
tellurium bromide
tetrabromide
tetradecabromide
tetrylammonium bromide
thallium bromide
timepidium bromide
tin bromide
titanium bromide
tribromide
trimedoxime bromide
tungsten bromide
uranous bromide
vanadium bromide
vinyl bromide
ytterbium bromide
yttrium bromide
zinc bromide
zirconium bromide
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: bromur
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 溴化物
roman: xiùhuàwù
lang: Czech
word: bromid
lang: Dutch
word: bromide
lang: Finnish
word: bromidi
lang: French
word: bromure
lang: German
word: Bromid
lang: Hindi
word: दुराघ्रेय
roman: durāghrey
lang: Hungarian
word: bromid
lang: Indonesian
word: bromida
lang: Italian
word: bromuro
lang: Japanese
word: 臭化物
roman: shūkabutsu
lang: Kazakh
word: бромид
roman: bromid
lang: Kyrgyz
word: бромид
roman: bromid
lang: Marathi
word: बोमाईड
roman: bomāīḍ
lang: Marathi
word: बोमाइड
roman: bomāiḍ
lang: Norwegian
word: bromid
lang: Polish
word: bromek
lang: Portuguese
word: brometo
lang: Romanian
word: bromură
lang: Russian
word: броми́д
roman: bromíd
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: bròimid
lang: Spanish
word: bromuro
lang: Swedish
word: bromid
lang: Telugu
word: బ్రోమైడు
roman: brōmaiḍu
lang: Turkish
word: bromür