CHESTNUT Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

chestnut

noun

ˈches(t)-(ˌ)nət

Definition of chestnut

as in bromide

an idea or expression that has been used by many people An op-ed piece that offers nothing but warmed-over chestnuts for solving the city's financial woes.

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Noun

Physicists at The City College of New York have demonstrated microwave-to-optical conversion using chromium sulfide bromide, or CrSBr.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026
The fire contained compounds from more than two dozen chemical families, including dangerous amounts of bromide, a naturally occurring element that can irritate the skin and mucus membranes.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 29 June 2026

Definition of bromide

Noun

The underlying lesson of the proverb dates back at least to the time of the first Olympics in Greece — nearly 3,000 years ago, for those counting at home.

— Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 20 Sep. 2026
That proverb, attributed to everyone from Yogi Berra to a Danish Nobel laureate, springs to mind whenever someone asks me about an upcoming NFL season.

— Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of proverb

Noun

With all the hype surrounding potential uses of AI tools, this is a truism that too often gets forgotten.

— Bryan Mistele, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Wars cannot be fought on ideology alone – a truism that perhaps led to the firebrand former defense minister’s departure, after months of clashes and refusing to deal with the army top brass, as Zelensky describes it.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of truism

Noun

Because the story lines are facile fakes, because the characters are blanked out, the substance of relationships is reduced to dialogue of generalities and platitudes.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026
The quarterback usually speaks in emotionless platitudes during news conferences.

— Joaquin Ruiz, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of platitude

Noun

There’s so much premeditation and passion into doing that, and to actually play that with no music and just the sound and the banality of a lifeless body being hit by some blunt instrument is very viscerally upsetting.

— Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026
Then morning would come, with all the banalities that drew them apart.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of banality

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