What is "bland" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does bland mean in English? Meaning of bland definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "bland" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "bland": lacking taste or flavor or tang

Adjective

  • Meaning: lacking taste or flavor or tang
  • Example: a bland diet insipid hospital food flavorless supermarket tomatoes vapid beer vapid tea
  • Synonyms: bland flat flavorless flavourless insipid savorless savourless vapid
  • Similar: tasteless
  • Meaning of "bland": lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting

    Adjective

  • Meaning: lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
  • Example: a bland little drama a flat joke
  • Synonyms: bland flat
  • Similar: unexciting unstimulating
  • Meaning of "bland": smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication

    Adjective

  • Meaning: smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
  • Example: he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error
  • Synonyms: bland politic smooth suave
  • Similar: diplomatic diplomatical
  • Adjective: (transitive, UK dialectal) To mix; blend; mingle.(transitive, UK dialectal) To connect; associate.
  • Synonyms:

    tedious, watery, insipid, boring, wishy-washy, tame, banal, dull, blah, flat, flavorless, humdrum, monotonous, nothing, pabulum, unexciting, uninteresting, vanilla, vapid, weak, zero, waterish, dull as dishwater, ho hum, milk-and-water, nerdy, sapless, uninspiring, unstimulating, wimpy, pleasant, amiable, affable, civilized, congenial, courteous, gentle, good-natured, ingratiating, oily, smooth, suave, unctuous, unemotional, urbane, soft, balmy, calm, clear, lenient, smooth, soothing, calmative, mollifying, nonirritant, nonirritating,

    Antonyms:

    exciting, interesting, lively, delicious, distinctive, tasty, yummy, blasé, unfriendly, bright, sharp, blase, ungracious, bitter, caustic, severe, zingy, hateful, unfriendly, delicious, distinctive, tasty, yummy, blasé, disagreeable, sharp, blase, dull, ungracious, bitter, caustic, severe, zingy, delicious, distinctive, tasty, yummy, blasé, unfriendly, sharp, blase, dull, ungracious, bitter, caustic, severe, zingy,

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    bland in English: bland
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