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bland
soothing; affable, mild amiable; not highly flavored; tasteless; unemotional: a bland response
Not to be confused with:
blend – mix inseparably together: blend the sauce; compound; mingle; combine; unite
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bland
(blănd)adj. bland·er, bland·est
1. Characterized by a moderate, unperturbed, or tranquil quality, especially:
a. Pleasant in manner; smooth: a bland smile.
b. Not irritating or stimulating; soothing: a bland diet.
c. Exhibiting no personal worry, embarrassment, or concern: told a series of bland lies.
2.
a. Dull and insipid: a bland little drama.
b. Having little or no distinctive flavor: bland cooking.
bland′ly adv.
bland′ness n.
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bland
(blænd)adj
1. devoid of any distinctive or stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; dull: bland food.
2. gentle and agreeable; suave
3. (of the weather) mild and soothing
4. unemotional or unmoved: a bland account of atrocities.
[C15: from Latin blandus flattering]
ˈblandly adv
ˈblandness n
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bland
(blænd)adj. -er, -est.
1. pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
2. soothing or balmy, as air.
3. nonirritating, as food or medicines.
4. not highly flavored; mild; tasteless: a bland sauce.
5. lacking in special interest, liveliness, individuality, etc.; dull.
6. unemotional, casual: a bland confession.
[1590–1600; < Latin blandus of a smooth tongue]
bland′ly, adv.
bland′ness, n.
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Adj. | 1. | bland - lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" tasteless - lacking flavor |
2. | bland - lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke" unexciting, unstimulating - not stimulating | |
3. | bland - smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"; "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error" diplomatical, diplomatic - using or marked by tact in dealing with sensitive matters or people; "the hostess averted a confrontation with a diplomatic chenage of subject" |
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bland
adjective
1. dull, boring, weak, plain, flat, commonplace, tedious, vanilla (informal), dreary, tiresome, monotonous, run-of-the-mill, uninspiring, humdrum, unimaginative, uninteresting, insipid, unexciting, ho-hum (informal), vapid, unstimulating, undistinctive It's easy on the ear but bland and forgettable.
dull interesting, exciting, inspiring, stimulating, rousing, turbulent
dull interesting, exciting, inspiring, stimulating, rousing, turbulent
2. tasteless, weak, watered-down, insipid, flavourless, thin, unstimulating, undistinctive It tasted bland and insipid, like warmed card.
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bland
adjective2. Lacking an appetizing flavor:
3. Lacking the qualities requisite for spiritedness and originality:
Informal: wishy-washy.
4. Without definite or distinctive characteristics:
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Translations
غَيْر حَريففاتِر، بِدونِ عَواطِف
bez chutichabýmdlýmírnýnijaký
kedeliguanfægtetuberørtudvandet
bragîlítilltilòrifalaus, dauflegur; viîfelldinn
prėskaiprėskasprėskumasšaltai mandagusšaltas mandagumas
bezgaršīgsmaigsneizteiksmīgs
bland
[blænd] ADJ (blander (compar) (blandest (superl)))Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
bland
adj (+er) taste, food, diet → fad; book, film, statement → nichtssagend; person, character → langweilig, farblos; expression, look, smile → leer
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
bland
[blænd] adj (smile) → blando/a; (character) → insulso/a; (food) → insipido/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
bland
(blӕnd) adjective1. (of food etc) mild, tasteless. That soup is very bland.
2. (of people, their actions etc) showing no emotion. a bland smile.
ˈblandly adverbˈblandness noun
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
bland
a. blando-a, suave;
___ diet → dieta ___.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
bland
adj (food) blandaEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.