beige
UK/ˈbeɪʒ/
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British/ˈbɛjʒ/
beige noun: a colour, variously defined from a pale brown, to a yellow greyish off-white.
Noun
beige (countable and uncountable, plural beiges)
Adjective
beige (comparative beiger or more beige, superlative beigest or most beige)
- Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
- Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.1956, Delano Ames, chapter 24, in Crime out of Mind
- Mr. Lauwaert of Sony said he realized that most consumers were not going to buy computers that cost far more than discount beige boxes.2006 November 23, Michel Marriott, “When Beige Won’t Do”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- Synonyms:
- bland, indistinct, colorless, drab
- Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.
- Think about it: he grew up in Iowa, the beigest of states, was doted on, loved generously by his parents, the top of his class, probably voted Most Handsome of 2000.2007, Prairie L. Markussen, Cover, page 48
- In the beigest parts of suburbia where I grew up, bridge was a game played by groups of parents in recreation rooms furnished with upright pianos and souvenir sombreros.2010, Gerald J. McCarthy, A Man of Substances
beige meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam and Odia
beige in Hindi
- colour
- बेज bej, बेझ़ beź
beige in Bengali
- colour
- বেইজ beij
beige in Malayalam
- pale brown, fawn, buff
- ഇളം തവിട്ടുനിറമായ, ഇളം തവിട്ടുനിറത്തോടുകൂടിയ, മങ്ങിയ തവിട്ടുനിറമുള്ള, മങ്ങിയ മഞ്ഞനിറമായ, ഒട്ടകരോമത്തിന്റെ നിറമുള്ള, ചെമ്മണ്ണുനിറമായ
beige in Odia
- ବେଜ
More languagesFewer languages
- beige in Nepali
- बेज bej
- beige in Tagalog
- murang kayumanggi
- beige in Arabic
- بِيج bīj
- beige in Malay
- krim, kuning air
- beige in Indonesian
- krem, putih kuam
- beige in Persian
- بژ bež
- beige in Vietnamese
- be, màu be
- beige in Myanmar
- အဝါနုရောင်ရှိသော a.wanu.raunghri.sau:
Examples of beige in a sentence
- For a meal of relentlessly beige food, may I suggest the beigest of wines?2013 March 25, Eric Asimov, “A Beige Wine for a Beige Meal”, in NYT Diner’s Journal Blog:
- His social media posts are just like... he's beige.2016, Penelope Garcia, “The Witness”, in Criminal Minds, season 11, episode 2:
Synonyms of beige
Forms of beige
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | beiges |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | beiger |
| comparative | more beige |
| superlative | beigest |
| superlative | most beige |
Origin of beige
Unadapted borrowing from French (dialectal) beige, from Old French bege (“color of undyed wool or cotton”), from an Alpine language (compare Franco-Provençal bézho, Romansch besch (“dull grey”)), from Vulgar Latin *bysseus (“cottony grey”) (compare French bis, Catalan bis, Italian bigio), from Late Latin byssus (“cotton”), from Ancient Greek βύσσος (bússos, “cotton homespun”), from Semitic (compare Hebrew/Aramaic בוץ (būṣ)). Doublet of bice.
Words formed from beige
Phrases with beige
Words that rhyme with beige
Questions about beige
- What does beige mean?
- Beige means a colour, variously defined from a pale brown, to a yellow greyish off-white.
- What is beige in Hindi?
- Beige in Hindi is बेज (bej), बेझ़ (beź). See Beige meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use beige in a sentence?
- For a meal of relentlessly beige food, may I suggest the beigest of wines?
- What part of speech is beige?
- Beige can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce beige?
- Beige is pronounced /ˈbeɪʒ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of beige?
- The plural of beige is beiges.
Words near beige in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: beige (page history and authors); beige (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); beige (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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