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bieder

German, adjective/ˈbiːdɐ/

bieder is a German adjective meaning “honest, respectable, trustworthy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “anständig, ehrlich, ehrbar, moralisch integer”.

What does bieder mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    datedhonest, respectable, trustworthy

  2. 2

    derogatorynaive, simple-minded, guileless (sticking simple-mindedly to society's norms)

  3. 3

    derogatorynarrow-minded, bourgeois, petit bourgeois (sticking narrow-mindedly to society's norms, with the intent on being respectable)

  4. 4

    conventional, conservative, drab, stodgy, prude

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. anständig, ehrlich, ehrbar, moralisch integer 2. sich engstirnig an gesellschaftliche Regeln haltend, sehr darauf bedacht, als anständig zu gelten und nicht unangenehm aufzufallen, dabei vielleicht auch zu einfältig, zu naiv, treuherzig 3. eine Lebenseinstellung wie in der Bedeutung [2] ausdrückend

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of bieder

  • biederer masculine nominative singular
  • am biedersten superlative
  • biedere feminine nominative singular
  • biederes neuter nominative singular
  • biederen genitive masculine singular
  • biederem dative masculine singular
  • der biedere definite includes-article masculine
  • die biedere definite feminine includes-article
  • das biedere definite includes-article neuter
  • die biederen definite includes-article nominative
  • des biederen definite genitive includes-article
  • der biederen definite feminine genitive
  • dem biederen dative definite includes-article
  • biedrer comparative

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce bieder?

  • /ˈbiːdɐ/
  • [ˈbiːdɐ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to bieder

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is bieder in German?

bieder appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).