Tabloid

Origin

From a trademark for a medicine compressed into a tablet. See -oid.

Full definition of tabloid

Noun

1. (publishing) A newspaper having pages half the dimensions of the standard format, especially one that favours stories of a sensational nature over more serious news.

Synonyms

• scandal sheet, tab colloquial, yellow press

Antonyms

• broadsheet

Adjective

1. In the format of a tabloid.
2. Relating to a tabloid or tabloids.
• 2013-06-22, Snakes and ladders, Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.
3. tabloid journalism