bromide
Syllables: bro·mideUK/ˈbɹəʊ.maɪd//ˈbɹoʊ.maɪd/
bromide noun: a binary compound of bromine and some other element or radical.
Noun
bromide (plural bromides)
- A binary compound of bromine and some other element or radical.
- Any salt of hydrobromic acid.
- The anionic form of a bromine atom.
- “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...1894, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Black Monk, published 1917
- A dull person with conventional thoughts.
- 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.1906, Frank Gelett Burgess, Are You A Bromide?
- Antonyms:
- sulphite
- A platitude.
- 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.1974, Murray Newton Rothbard, “What the State Is Not”, in Anatomy of the State
- A dose of bromide taken as a sedative, or to reduce sexual appetite.
- A print made on bromide paper.
bromide meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Telugu
bromide in Hindi
- chemistry: binary compound of bromine and another element
- दुराघ्रेय durāghrey
bromide in Tamil
- புரோமைட்டு, புரோமைடு
bromide in Marathi
- chemistry: binary compound of bromine and another element
- बोमाईड bomāīḍ, बोमाइड bomāiḍ
bromide in Telugu
- chemistry: binary compound of bromine and another element
- బ్రోమైడు brōmaiḍu
More languagesFewer languages
- bromide in Indonesian
- bromida
Examples of bromide in a sentence
- “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. […]”1894, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Black Monk, published 1917:
- 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.2020 June 2, Thomas L. Friedman, “America, We Break It, It’s Gone”, in New York Times:
- But successive governments have met these mounting challenges with either hard-hearted austerity (from the Conservatives) or bland bromides for change (from Labour).2026 June 22, Mark Sappenfield, “Starmer is out, but is Britain done with its prime minister churn?”, in The Christian Science Monitor...
Synonyms of bromide
Antonyms
Forms of bromide
| plural | bromides |
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Origin of bromide
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.
Words formed from bromide
- 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
Phrases with bromide
- vinyl bromide
- bromide papers
- methyl bromide
- silver bromide
- sodium bromide
- phenacyl bromide
- otilonium bromide
- potassium bromide
- prifinium bromide
- tellurium bromide
- timepidium bromide
- trimedoxime bromide
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Questions about bromide
- What does bromide mean?
- Bromide means a binary compound of bromine and some other element or radical.
- What is bromide in Hindi?
- Bromide in Hindi is दुराघ्रेय (durāghrey). See Bromide meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use bromide in a sentence?
- “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. […]”
- What part of speech is bromide?
- Bromide is a noun.
- How do you pronounce bromide?
- Bromide is pronounced /ˈbɹəʊ.maɪd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of bromide?
- The plural of bromide is bromides.
Words near bromide in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bromide (page history and authors); bromide (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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