BROMIDE


Meaning of BROMIDE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ broʊmaɪd ]

( bromides)

1.

Bromide is a drug which used to be given to people to calm their nerves when they were worried or upset.

...a dose of bromide.

N-MASS

2.

A bromide is a comment which is intended to calm someone down when they are angry, but which has been expressed so often that it has become boring and meaningless. ( FORMAL )

The meeting produced the usual bromides about macroeconomic policy, third-world debt and the environment.

= platitude

N-COUNT

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