EN

Synonyms for bromidic

  • adjective

Most common

tired well-worn stale corny time-worn

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Corny — stale, banal, clichéd

corny, stock, tired, well-worn, stale, commonplace, banal, trite, unoriginal, threadbare, hackneyed, platitudinous, platitudinal, warmed-over, overworked, clichéd

Other

time-worn, shop-worn

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Stale, banal, clichéd.

    I'm as trite and as gay as a daisy in May, / A cliché comin' true! / I'm bromidic and bright / As a moon-happy night / Pourin' light on the dew!

Example sentences

  • tired I'm getting tired of driving on this winding road.
  • stale Ziri discovered that the birdseed had gone stale.
  • corny Mary's the only one who laughs at Tom's corny jokes.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
bromidicfalling
tiredrising
stalerising
cornyrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

5 letters
stock1, tired2, stale1, corny2, banal2, trite1
9 letters
hackneyed2
10 letters
overworked3, unoriginal, threadbare2
11 letters
commonplace3
12 letters
platitudinal
13 letters
platitudinous

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tired2 = 2 syllables).