Pabulum

Quick meaning: Pabulum is a noun meaning Food or fodder, particularly that taken in by plants or animals.

Meaning

Food or fodder, particularly that taken in by plants or animals.

More Meanings

1. Material that feeds a fire.
2. (figuratively) Food for thought.
3. (figuratively) Bland intellectual fare; an undemanding diet of words.

Example Sentences

But the rescheduling of the directors' meeting for 7.30 a.m., and the trotting-out of such tawdry pabulums?

And with the eye of a bird seeking for minute fragmnts of seed, minute insects, tiny parasites, we also look for things that to us are the constituents of our mental or visual pabula.

At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

Having for many years considered oil as the great pabulum of plants, I was much hurt by the result of some experiments, which state oil as poison; and turning this in my thoughts a thousand times over, it at last occurred to me, that though oil, as oil in its crude state, might act as a poison, yet it might be so changed as to convey it with great advantage to the soil, […]

Word Forms

• pabula
• pabulums

Synonyms for pabulum

Depending on context, synonyms include fuel, pablum, pap, victual, comestible, victuals.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include comestible, eatable, edible, victual, victuals, fodder.

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