pab·u·lum

(păb′yə-ləm)

1. A substance that gives nourishment; food.

2. Intellectual material that is bland, trite, or insipid; pablum: "TV ... gobbled up comedy material and spat it out as pabulum" (Richard Corliss).

[Latin pābulum; see pā- in Indo-European roots. Sense 2, by confusion with pablum.]

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pabulum

(ˈpæbjʊləm)

1. food

2. food for thought, esp when bland or dull

[C17: from Latin, from pascere to feed]

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pab•u•lum

(ˈpæb yə ləm)

n.

1. something that nourishes; food.

2. intellectual nourishment.

3. a soft, bland cereal for infants.

[1670–80; < Latin pābulum food, nourishment =pā(scere) to feed + -bulum n. suffix of instrument]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	pabulum - any substance that can be used as food comestible, eatable, edible, victual, victuals food, nutrient - any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue tuck - eatables (especially sweets)
	2.	pabulum - insipid intellectual nourishment food for thought, intellectual nourishment, food - anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking

pabulum

noun

1. Something fit to be eaten:

aliment, bread, comestible, diet, edible, esculent, fare, food, foodstuff, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pap, provender, provision (used in plural), sustenance, victual.

Slang: chow, eats, grub.

2. That which sustains the mind or spirit:

aliment, bread, food, nourishment, nutriment, pap, sustenance.

Translations

pab·u·lum

n. L. pabulum, alimento o sustancia alimenticia mezcla de trigo y avena.