A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
Used in a Sentence
beige
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for beige.
Editorial note
Have you taken a look at how much it would cost to repaint your office beige when you needed to?
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Definitions4
Parts of speech2
Quick take
A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of beige gathered in one view.
Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.
Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for beige.
noun
A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
noun
Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.
adjective
Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
adjective
(informal, originally US) Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.
Example sentences
Have you taken a look at how much it would cost to repaint your office beige when you needed to?
It works better on pages with images that are flush with the beige on both sides.
You should add a bit of space between the edge of the beige and the text.
My biggest complaint with the kindle (post beige / side buttons era) is the black plastic.
What this is missing is the mottled browning and yellowing from all the cigarette smoke on the beige plastic case.
Finally, a time to upgrade this mass of beige boxes and randomly built servers..
The beige boxes became a commodity, and all profits went to Intel and Microsoft.
Kind of like you stopped buying Apple products when the iMac came out in different colors in 1999, instead of just beige?
There are leucistic ravens that are beige and albino ravens that are white.
Computers are way uglier now than they were in the 90s (beige boxes).
It was filled with these boring, beige cards, DEC's looked much better ^_^.
When I finally decided to sell, I replaced the crappy carpet, painted the walls beige and made a 5x profit.
Quote examples
The resveratrol in berries and grapes is also suspected of causing white adipose cells to temporarily become "beige", where they mimic brown adipose cells.
What stuck me as odd about the story is how "2 racks" of "beige boxes and randomly built servers" could come anywhere close to being as valuable as people's salaries.
I wanted a Commodore 64, of course, so when I got that grey instead of beige box it was immediately clear to me that it was not "the real thing".
It produced random passwords like "luthier-beige-6139" or "unintimated-clamp-3529".
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use beige in a sentence?
Have you taken a look at how much it would cost to repaint your office beige when you needed to?
What does beige mean?
A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
What part of speech is beige?
beige is commonly used as noun, adjective.