bieder
- (dated) honest, respectable, upright, trustworthy
- (derogatory) naive, simple-minded, guileless, ingenuous, oafish (sticking simple-mindedly to society's norms)
- (derogatory) narrow-minded, bourgeois, petty bourgeois, petit bourgeois, hypocritical (sticking narrow-mindedly to society's norms, with the intent on being respectable)
- (usually) conventional, stale, conservative, drab, stodgy, prude, puritanical
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".
unumwunden
brav und bieder
philisterhaft
spießerhaft
eerzaam
honnête
onesto
honrado
ακέραιος
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