beige

Meanings

Plural: beiges

Noun

a very light brown
A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

Adjective Satellite

of a light greyish-brown color

Adj

Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.

Origin / Etymology

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.

Synonyms

bland, colorless, drab, ecru, indistinct, tedious

Scrabble Score: 8

beige is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
beige is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
beige is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

beige is a valid Words With Friends word