bromide

Other forms of bromide

plural

bromides·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bromide

What does bromide mean?

bromide means "any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bromide?

bromide has 2 syllables: bro-mide. The stress falls on "bro". In IPA it is /ˈbɹoʊˌmaɪd/.

What is another word for bromide?

Close synonyms include platitude, cliche, banality, commonplace. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bromide a common word?

bromide is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bromide?

3 words rhyme with bromide. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.