white bread
Plain sliced loaf
White bread is bread made from refined wheat flour, lighter in color and softer than whole wheat.
Figuratively, white bread describes something bland, conventional, or culturally mainstream—often with connotations of middle-class white American suburbia: a white-bread upbringing, The neighborhood was pretty white bread.
Also spelled white-bread as an adjective.
Baked bread shape
- slicedDivided by cutting
- toastHeated bread; glass-raising honor
- sandwichFilling between bread slices
- crustHard outer layer
dough · yeast · flour · bakery · oven · baking · buttered · wheat
Dominant cultural current
- conformistOne following accepted norms
- suburbanOf residential outskirts
- middle-classIntermediate socioeconomic group
- safeFree from peril
ordinary · typical · average · unremarkable · vanilla · cookie-cutter · homogeneous · sanitized
Longing for the past
- familiarKnown from experience
- childhoodLife's earliest phase
- homeyPleasantly informal and warm
- soothingReducing distress or discomfort
simple · unpretentious · lunchbox · grilled cheese · PB&J · school lunch · diner · classic
Having no flavor
- flavorlessHaving no taste
- plainBasic and unremarkable
- unseasonedLacking flavor or experience
- mildModerate in intensity
neutral · soft · unremarkable · inoffensive · safe · mass-produced · generic · uniform
loaf
Baked bread shape
crust · dough · yeast · flour · bakery · oven · baking · buttered · wheat · grain
mainstream
Dominant cultural current
- conformistOne following accepted norms
- suburbanOf residential outskirts
- middle-classIntermediate socioeconomic group
safe · ordinary · typical · average · unremarkable · vanilla · cookie-cutter · homogeneous · sanitized · square
nostalgic
Longing for the past
soothing · simple · unpretentious · lunchbox · grilled cheese · PB&J · school lunch · diner · classic · traditional
tasteless
Having no flavor
- flavorlessHaving no taste
- plainBasic and unremarkable
- unseasonedLacking flavor or experience
mild · neutral · soft · unremarkable · inoffensive · safe · mass-produced · generic · uniform · predictable
- bakerycake, cookie, muffins, donuts, donut
- breadbaguette, brioche, ciabatta, focaccia, challah
- breadsbagel, boules, brioche, ciabatta, cornbread
- bland foodsplain rice, tofu, boiled chicken, oatmeal, steamed vegetables
- budget goodsstore brands, discount stores, dollar stores, generic medicine, instant noodles
- stuffing ingredientsbreadcrumbs, celery, onion, sage, thyme
white breadedgy
Tense and irritable
exotic · multicultural · unconventional · diverse · avant-garde
white breadwhole grain bread
whole wheat bread · dark rye · pumpernickel · multigrain bread · brown bread
white, bread, whitewash, breads, whiten, whitish, breadth, whiter, whiteness