Bromide
noun
A plain or obvious saying that is intended to be wise advice but is often not very original or interesting.
He offered the bromide: 'Be careful what you wish for.'
Often appears as...
- 'utter a bromide'
- 'offer a bromide'
noun
A binary compound of bromine with another element or group, especially any of those used in medicinal drugs.
Potassium bromide is often used as a sedative.
Often appears as...
- 'potassium bromide'
- 'sodium bromide'
Usage tips
Medical
noun
A photographic print made by a process involving bromine.
The photographer developed beautiful bromides.
Often appears as...
- 'black and white bromide'
- 'color bromide'
Usage tips
Photography
noun
A plain or obvious saying that is intended to be wise advice but is often not very original or interesting.
He offered the bromide: 'Be careful what you wish for.'
Often appears as...
- 'utter a bromide'
- 'offer a bromide'
noun
A binary compound of bromine with another element or group, especially any of those used in medicinal drugs.
Potassium bromide is often used as a sedative.
Often appears as...
- 'potassium bromide'
- 'sodium bromide'
Usage tips
Medical
noun
A photographic print made by a process involving bromine.
The photographer developed beautiful bromides.
Often appears as...
- 'black and white bromide'
- 'color bromide'
Usage tips
Photography
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Overused Wisdom
Use 'bromide' to describe dull, obvious advice that lacks depth.
His speech was full of bromides that bored the audience.
Pro Tip 2/3Avoid in Novels
'Bromide' implies the author uses unoriginal expressions. Good for critiques.
The novel was criticized for its use of bromides instead of fresh dialogue.
Pro Tip 3/3Conversational Caution
Don't use 'bromide' in everyday conversation; it can seem pretentious or insulting.
Calling someone's advice a bromide might offend them.
Pro Tip 1/3Overused Wisdom
Use 'bromide' to describe dull, obvious advice that lacks depth.
His speech was full of bromides that bored the audience.
Pro Tip 2/3Avoid in Novels
'Bromide' implies the author uses unoriginal expressions. Good for critiques.
The novel was criticized for its use of bromides instead of fresh dialogue.
Pro Tip 3/3Conversational Caution
Don't use 'bromide' in everyday conversation; it can seem pretentious or insulting.
Calling someone's advice a bromide might offend them.
Pro Tip 1/3Overused Wisdom
Use 'bromide' to describe dull, obvious advice that lacks depth.
His speech was full of bromides that bored the audience.
Pro Tip 2/3Avoid in Novels
'Bromide' implies the author uses unoriginal expressions. Good for critiques.
The novel was criticized for its use of bromides instead of fresh dialogue.
Pro Tip 3/3Conversational Caution
Don't use 'bromide' in everyday conversation; it can seem pretentious or insulting.
Calling someone's advice a bromide might offend them.
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Video examples
Rethinking manufacturing...
this morning this session last year and as you're thinking about the impact of these things the first thing you've got to talk about is how it affects people because there's a management bromide out there that people are the most important part of any organization and you start
Video examples
What causes seizures,...
how could doctors stop this from happening? Physicians like Sir Charles Locock hypothesized that sedative drugs might calm overactive brain activity, a theory he confirmed by treating seizures with a medication called potassium bromide.
Video examples
Rethinking manufacturing...
this morning this session last year and as you're thinking about the impact of these things the first thing you've got to talk about is how it affects people because there's a management bromide out there that people are the most important part of any organization and you start
Video examples
What causes seizures,...
how could doctors stop this from happening? Physicians like Sir Charles Locock hypothesized that sedative drugs might calm overactive brain activity, a theory he confirmed by treating seizures with a medication called potassium bromide.
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Quote examples
Charles Bukowski
American Author
When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the 'i's' small.
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Michael Wolff
American Author
Every journalism bromide - speaking truth to power, comforting the afflicted, afflicting the powerful - that otherwise would be hopelessly sappy to a journalist of any experience, has become a Twitter grail. The true business of journalism has become obscured because there is really no longer a journalism business.
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Jack Lemmon
American Actor
I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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Victor Grignard
French Scientist
Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
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Camille Paglia
American Author
Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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Alan Ball
American Director
Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and bromides, and that does not work.
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Graham Joyce
English Writer
The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.
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Charles Bukowski
American Author
When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the 'i's' small.
Quote examples
Michael Wolff
American Author
Every journalism bromide - speaking truth to power, comforting the afflicted, afflicting the powerful - that otherwise would be hopelessly sappy to a journalist of any experience, has become a Twitter grail. The true business of journalism has become obscured because there is really no longer a journalism business.
Quote examples
Jack Lemmon
American Actor
I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
Quote examples
Victor Grignard
French Scientist
Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
Quote examples
Camille Paglia
American Author
Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
Quote examples
Alan Ball
American Director
Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and bromides, and that does not work.
Quote examples
Graham Joyce
English Writer
The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.
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