Beige

Quick meaning: Beige is a noun meaning A colour, variously defined from a pale brown, to a yellow greyish off-white.

Meaning

A colour, variously defined from a pale brown, to a yellow greyish off-white.

More Meanings

1. Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.
2. Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
3. (informal, originally US) Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.

Example Sentences

He has no criminal record. He has no traffic tickets. His social media posts are just like... he's beige.

Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.

Mr. Lauwaert of Sony said he realized that most consumers were not going to buy computers that cost far more than discount beige boxes.

For a meal of relentlessly beige food, may I suggest the beigest of wines? That would be chardonnay, which will go beautifully with Melissa Clark’s chicken potpie.

Word Forms

• beiges
• beiger
• beigest

Synonyms for beige

Depending on context, synonyms include bland, indistinct, colorless, drab, tedious, chromatic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ecru, colored, chromatic, tan, brown, wheaten.

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