English Explanatory Dictionary

beigist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A bland, banal, unoriginal person; a humorless bourgeois.
  2. A political centrist or politically correct person; an unphilosophical adherent to the zeitgeist.

Word forms

beigist beigists

Etymology

From beige + -ist. Probably coined by the comedian and actor Billy Connolly, as an antonym to the word "colourful" as applied to people.

Synonyms

bore bourgeois conformist dullard square centrist
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