bieder
Meaning
- (dated) honest, respectable, upright, trustworthy
- naive, simple-minded, guileless, ingenuous, oafish
- narrow-minded, bourgeois, petty bourgeois, petit bourgeois, hypocritical
- (usually) conventional, stale, conservative, drab, stodgy, prude, puritanical
Concepts
Synonyms
unumwunden
brav und bieder
philisterhaft
spießerhaft
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbiːdɐ/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle High German biderbe (also bederbe and shortened bider), from Old High German biderbi, piderpi, pidarpi, cognate with Bedarf. The derogatory sense arises in the 19th century. The compound Biedermann in origin means "brave, honest or capable man", but today has a meaning of "boring person, petty bourgeios".
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