Pablum

Quick meaning: Pablum is a noun meaning (uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Pablum (“a type of cereal for infants made from cornmeal, oat, and wheat”).

Meaning

(uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Pablum (“a type of cereal for infants made from cornmeal, oat, and wheat”).

More Meanings

1. (by extension, uncountable) Mushy, easily digested food; pap; (countable) a specific type of such food.
2. (countable, uncountable, figurative, derogatory) Something overly bland or simplistic, especially speech or writing.

Example Sentences

The juice from its hydro-power dam was needed to supply meager light to a million homes and to cook the pablum for two million brand-new babies.

Maybe we just don’t buy the pap, pablum and Pollyanification of the Futurama world view any longer because we are simply more sophisticated than the 1939ers.

[Adolf] Hitler's career coincided with the growth of these tensions. He offered scapegoats, revenge, nationalism, racial superiority, and prowess at arms—pablums for a nervous people.

The Republican argument today is pablum, mush and saccharine. (Which exhausts my edible metaphors.) Do Republicans really think that America's big problems are "taxes" and "trust"? Give me a cake.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for pablum

Depending on context, synonyms include pabulum, pap.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pap, mush, blandfest, prose, blandoid, bathos.

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