bieder

Etymology
From (also  and shortened ), from, , , cognate with. The derogatory sense arises in the 19th century. The compound in origin means "brave, honest or capable man", but today has a meaning of "boring person, petty bourgeios".

Adjective

 * 1)  honest, respectable, upright, trustworthy
 * 2) to stick simple-mindedly to society's norms naive, simple-minded, guileless, ingenuous, oafish
 * 3) to stick narrow-mindedly to society's norms, to be intent on being respectable narrow-minded, bourgeois, petty bourgeois, petit bourgeois, hypocritical
 * 4) of clothes, hairstyles, etc. conventional, stale, conservative, drab, stodgy, prude, puritanical

Synonyms

 * (honest, upright):, , , ,
 * (simple-minded, naive):, ,
 * (narrow-minded, bourgeois):, , ,
 * (conventional, stale): ,