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bland
1[ bland ]
adjective
- pleasantly gentle or agreeable:
a bland, affable manner.
- soothing or balmy, as air:
a bland southern breeze.
Antonyms: harsh
- nonirritating, as food or medicines:
a bland diet.
Antonyms: irritating
- not highly flavored; mild; tasteless:
a bland sauce.
- lacking in special interest, liveliness, individuality, etc.; insipid; dull:
a bland young man; a bland situation comedy.
- unemotional, indifferent, or casual:
his bland acknowledgment of guilt.
Bland
2[ bland ]
noun
- James A(llen), 1854–1911, U.S. songwriter and minstrel performer.
bland
/ blænd /
adjective
- devoid of any distinctive or stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; dull
bland food
- gentle and agreeable; suave
- (of the weather) mild and soothing
- unemotional or unmoved
a bland account of atrocities
Derived Forms
- ˈblandly, adverb
- ˈblandness, noun
Other Words From
- blandly adverb
- blandness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of bland1
Word History and Origins
Origin of bland1
Example Sentences
Bean fantasies of bland feminine beauty is truly astounding.
"Hearty" and "fondly" stand out to me, given how anodyne and bland these statements so often are.
Buried in a bland mixed-use skyscraper in the dreary Financial District downtown, an aging, if glamorous, 1929 movie palace with rotten acoustics long served as the San Diego Symphony’s disagreeable home.
That’s why her album avoids the bland platitudes of most superstar DJ projects.
It focused on bland horse-race coverage so common during election season, rather than clearly stating what really took place: an egregious and willful violation of long-standing norms.
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