Meaning & use
Bromidic
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Dull, trite, or commonplace; lacking originality, like a worn-out platitude.
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The commencement speech was full of bromidic advice about following your dreams.
Critics found the film's dialogue bromidic and predictable.
A note on using this word
The word derives from "bromide," a sedative once used to calm patients; a "bromide" came to mean a dull, calming platitude, and "bromidic" describes anything with that same flat, unoriginal quality.
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