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Definitions

white-bread

ADJECTIVE

humdrum

Synonyms

STRONGEST

drab dreary everyday monotonous mundane plodding tedious uninteresting

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blah common commonplace monotone ordinary pedestrian routine treadmill vanilla

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arid banausic bromidic dim dime a dozen dull garden-variety insipid lifeless prosy repetitious tiresome toneless unvaried wearisome

Antonyms

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exciting interesting

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abnormal different exceptional extraordinary rare uncommon unusual

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busy eventful lively

ADJECTIVE

ordinary

Synonyms

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common conventional dull generic humble mediocre normal plain simple unremarkable workaday

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commonplace fair familiar garden homespun household inferior mean pedestrian plastic routine vanilla

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characterless garden variety habitual indifferent modest no great shakes prosaic quotidian run-of-the-mill second-rate so-so stereotyped undistinguished uneventful unexceptional uninspired unmemorable unnoteworthy unpretentious usual

Antonyms

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abnormal complex complicated decorated difficult embellished extraordinary intelligent intricate irregular ornate smart sophisticated strange superior unclear uncommon unconventional unusual

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different exceptional

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distinctive remarkable special

ADJECTIVE

plain

Synonyms

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conventional dull ordinary simple traditional

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average common commonplace routine vanilla

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homely lowly modest quotidian usual workaday

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abnormal different intelligent irregular new smart uncommon unusual

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exceptional extraordinary infrequent rare

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abstruse ambiguous attractive beautiful complex complicated decorated difficult dressed-up embellished formal hidden imperceptible incomprehensible intricate obscure obscured ornate pretty unclear vague

ADJECTIVE

tame

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bland bloodless boring feeble mild weak

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diluted limp

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boiled down conventional flat halfhearted humdrum insipid lifeless monotonous prosaic routine spiritless tedious unexciting uninspiring vapid wearisome without punch

Antonyms

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able strong

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bright exciting interesting unmanageable untamed violent wild

ADJECTIVE

usual

Synonyms

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constant conventional current customary everyday expected familiar frequent natural normal prevailing regular routine

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accepted accustomed average chronic commonplace cut-and-dried fixed garden variety general grind habitual mainstream matter-of-course ordinary plain plastic prevalent quotidian rife run-of-the-mill so-so standard stock typic unremarkable vanilla wonted workaday

Antonyms

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abnormal different eccentric foreign inconstant infrequent irregular new occasional original rare strange uncommon unconventional unfamiliar unsteady unusual

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atypical

ADJECTIVE

everyday

Synonyms

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commonplace frequent mundane normal ordinary prosaic usual workaday

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accustomed average conventional customary daily dime a dozen dull familiar garden variety habitual informal lowly mainstream middle-of-the-road per diem plain quotidian routine run-of-the-mill stock unexceptional unimaginative unremarkable vanilla wonted

Antonyms

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abnormal extraordinary infrequent irregular rare uncommon unusual

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different exceptional special unexpected unfamiliar

ADJECTIVE

bland

Synonyms

STRONGEST

banal boring dull insipid tame tedious watery wishy-washy

WEAK

blah dull as dishwater flat flavorless ho-hum humdrum milk-and-water monotonous nothing pabulum sapless unexciting uninspiring uninteresting unstimulating vanilla vapid waterish weak wimpy zero

Antonyms

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bright exciting interesting lively

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bitter delicious distinctive sharp tasty yummy zingy

Example Sentences

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But it was her TV ads for orange juice—featuring her own children, a cartoon bird, and a lilting jingle about the “Florida sunshine tree”—that made her the nation’s leading avatar for white-bread American wholesomeness.

From Slate • Jan. 11, 2025

The goal was to enable Disney to avoid the honky-tonk character of development around Disneyland in Anaheim, and instead keep the Florida property in perfectly coiffed white-bread comeliness.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2023

The colonel stifled Elvis’s desire to go for prestigious movies like “West Side Story” and pushed him to make white-bread girls-in-paradise pop musicals that got worse and worse.

From New York Times • May 21, 2022

Being a witch looked dangerous and cool, wholly removed from my white-bread Midwestern life.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2020

She had managed to get some flour smuggled into Paris from her husband's estate, and had white-bread made of it secretly, at the pastry-cook's.

From Queen Hortense A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

white-bread

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