BROMIDE Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

bromide

noun

ˈbrō-ˌmīd

Definition of bromide

as in cliché

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

As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, some of America’s most visible business leaders are doing more than offering patriotic platitudes.

— Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
There’s passable yet indistinguishable music in this exact style dropping every day, but the difference with Chicago’s Fatso is that his lyrics feel like scraps of conversations that communicate his hurt without leaning on platitudes.

— Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 24 June 2026

Definition of platitude

Noun

And yet for God’s sake, just look at the man—at his dispiriting attempts at humor, his weirdly off-putting outfits, his incessant posting of banalities and faux profundities and extreme-right disinformation on social media.

— Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026
But together, the whole is blander than the sum of its parts—a subtle banality humans can often implicitly sense.

— Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 29 June 2026

Definition of banality

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

Wildly popular online influencers have also increasingly embraced antisemitic tropes, including Holocaust denial.

— Will Carless, USA Today, 10 July 2026
The choice yields a brighter, richer, more varied and nuanced story in which coming-of-age tropes mingle with Gileadean bleakness to reveal new facets of a state premised on male supremacy.

— Judy Berman, Time, 8 July 2026

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