Usually means: Bland, unstimulating intellectual or artistic content.
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  1. pablum: Merriam-Webster
  2. pablum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Pablum, pablum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Pablum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Pablum, pablum: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pablum, pablum: Wordnik
  7. Pablum, pablum: Wiktionary
  8. Pablum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Pablum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Pablum: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Pablum, pablum: Dictionary.com
  12. Pablum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Pablum: Rhymezone
  14. pablum: FreeDictionary.org
  15. pablum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Pablum: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pablum: Encyclopedia

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  2. pablum: Medical dictionary

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  1. Pablum: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pablum)

▸ noun:  (derogatory) Anything overly bland or simplistic, especially speech or writing.
▸ noun:  (dated) Nourishment.
▸ noun:  A cereal brand for infants, made from wheat, oat and cornmeal.
▸ noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Pablum [A cereal brand for infants, made from wheat, oat and cornmeal.]

Similar:
pap, soft diet, spoon food, blandfest, prose, blandoid, bathos, wooden language, plainsong, nonspeak, more...

Opposite:
spicy, flavorful, robust, hearty, substantial

Types:
Gerber, Heinz, Beech-Nut, Plum, more...

Adjectives:
intellectual, political, same, such, spiritual, educational, bland, more, usual, mental, pure

Colors:
    beige,     pastel pink,     light gray,     soft yellow,     pale blue, more...

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Similar:
pap, soft diet, spoon food, blandfest, prose, blandoid, bathos, wooden language, plainsong, nonspeak, more...

Opposite:
spicy, flavorful, robust, hearty, substantial

Types:
Gerber, Heinz, Beech-Nut, Plum, more...

Adjectives:
intellectual, political, same, such, spiritual, educational, bland, more, usual, mental, pure

Colors:
    beige,     pastel pink,     light gray,     soft yellow,     pale blue, more...



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