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- [hwahyt, wahyt bred]
- /ʰwaɪt, waɪt brɛd/
- /waɪt bred/
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- [hwahyt, wahyt bred]
- /ʰwaɪt, waɪt brɛd/
Definitions of white-bread word
- adjective white-bread pertaining to or characteristic of the white middle class; bourgeois: a typical white-bread suburban neighborhood. 1
- adjective white-bread bland; conventional. 1
- noun white-bread any white or light-colored bread made from finely ground, usually bleached, flour. 1
- adjective white-bread Alternative form of white bread. 0
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Origin of white-bread
First appearance:
before 1975 One of the 1% newest English words
First recorded in 1975-80
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for White-bread
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
white-bread popularity
This term is known only to a narrow circle of people with rare knowledge. Only 29% of English native speakers know the meaning of this word.
According to our data about 73% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.
Synonyms for white-bread
adj white-bread
- banausic — merely mechanical; materialistic; utilitarian
- characterless — If you describe something as characterless, you mean that it is dull and uninteresting.
- cut and dried — If you say that a situation or solution is cut and dried, you mean that it is clear and definite.
- garden variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
- grinder — a person or thing that grinds.
adjective white-bread
- garden — Alexander, 1730?–91, U.S. naturalist, born in Scotland.
- grind — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- monotone — a vocal utterance or series of speech sounds in one unvaried tone.
- ordinary — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
- whitebread — any white or light-colored bread made from finely ground, usually bleached, flour.
Antonyms for white-bread
adjective white-bread
- embellished — Simple past tense and past participle of embellish.
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