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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Trite, insipid, or simplistic writing, speech, or conceptualization.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Trademark A form of cereal for infants.
  • noun A diet that does not require chewing.
  • noun Worthless or oversimplified ideas.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Anything overly bland or simplistic, especially speech or writing.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun worthless or oversimplified ideas
  • noun a soft form of cereal for infants

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Pablum.]

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From Latin pābulum ("nourishment").

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