Synonyms for vanilla
vəˈnɪl ə or, often, -ˈnɛl əvanil·la

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1. vanillanoun

   Synonyms:
   imitation vanilla, vanilla bean, vanilla extract

2. vanillanoun

   Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.

   vanilla suit.

   Synonyms:
   vanilla bean, vanilla extract, imitation vanilla

3. vanillanoun

   The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.

   Synonyms:
   vanilla extract, imitation vanilla, vanilla bean

4. vanillanoun

   The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.

   Synonyms:
   imitation vanilla, vanilla extract, vanilla bean

5. vanillanoun

   The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.

   You can tell that the secret ingredient missing from New Coke was vanilla, because certain South American economies collapsed when it was introduced, and miraculously revived when the old formula was used again.

   Synonyms:
   imitation vanilla, vanilla extract, vanilla bean

6. vanillanoun

   Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.

   Synonyms:
   vanilla bean, imitation vanilla, vanilla extract

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1. vanillanoun

   any of numerous climbing plants of the genus Vanilla having fleshy leaves and clusters of large waxy highly fragrant white or green or topaz flowers

   Synonyms:
   vanilla extract

   Antonyms:
   fancy

2. vanilla, vanilla extractnoun

   a flavoring prepared from vanilla beans macerated in alcohol (or imitating vanilla beans)

   Synonyms:
   vanilla extract

   Antonyms:
   fancy

3. vanillaadjective

   a distinctive fragrant flavor characteristic of vanilla beans

   Synonyms:
   vanilla extract

   Antonyms:
   fancy

4. vanillaadjective

   flavored with vanilla extract

   "he liked vanilla ice cream"

   Antonyms:
   fancy

5. vanillaadjective

   plain and without any extras or adornments

   "the most common type of bond is the straight or plain vanilla bond"; "the basic car is known as the vanilla version"

   Antonyms:
   fancy

Matched Categories

1. • Flavoring
   • Orchid

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1. List of paraphrases for "vanilla":

   classic, cream

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1. Jeff Tucker:

   The big surprise for a lot of people might be that the market has a really boring year, it would be a great change of pace. A plain, boring, vanilla year in the housing market would be a wonderful surprise.

2. Kristin Davis:

   I'm worried about Black people, like me, getting hurt. Some skin is like chocolate. Some is like vanilla. Some is mixed together like mine. But we're all people, even though I'm Kristin Davis, it's important to speak my voice so people can hear me and know they can share their voice too, just like me.

3. Kemp Powers:

   Little details of One Night in Miami show up in various biographies, one little fact that's true is that all they had was vanilla ice cream.

4. Boey Yin Chong:

   Banks that look at plain vanilla deals only or just buyout event deals have felt the strain.

5. Dipayan Biswas:

   Vanilla doesn't stand out, things that are outrageous and out of the ordinary always get attention.