nostrum
Kelime Anlamı :
1. kocakarı ilaç.
2. dertlere çare olacağı öne sürülen yenilik.
3. kocakarı ilacı.
4. nostrum.
5. her derde deva.
6. dertlere çare olarak birinin ortaya attığı fikir.
7. Formülü gizli tutulan ilaç.
Eş Anlamlı Kelimeler :
Tanımlar :
1.
A medicine whose effectiveness is unproved and whose ingredients are usually secret; a quack remedy.
2. A favorite but usually ineffective remedy for problems or evils.
2. A favorite but usually ineffective remedy for problems or evils.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1.
A medicine or remedy in conventional use which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects.
2. an ineffective but favorite remedy for a problem, usually involving political action.
2. an ineffective but favorite remedy for a problem, usually involving political action.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1.
A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine.
2. any scheme or device proposed by a quack.
3. any scheme asserted to solve a problem, but with no objective basis for belief in its effectiveness; esp., in politics, a scheme or proposal likely to prove popular with voters.
2. any scheme or device proposed by a quack.
3. any scheme asserted to solve a problem, but with no objective basis for belief in its effectiveness; esp., in politics, a scheme or proposal likely to prove popular with voters.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1.
A medicine the ingredients of which, and the method of compounding them, are kept secret, for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; especially, a quack medicine.
2. hence any scheme or device of a quack or charlatan.
2. hence any scheme or device of a quack or charlatan.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia