bland
Plural: blands
Adjective Satellite
- lacking taste or flavor or tang
- "a bland diet"
- lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
- "a bland little drama"
- smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
Adj
- Having a soothing effect; not irritating or stimulating.
- Lacking in taste or flavor.
- Lacking in vigor.
- Lacking interest; boring; dull.
- Mild; soft, gentle, balmy; smooth in manner; suave.
Verb
- To mix; blend; mingle.
- To connect; associate.
Noun
- Mixture; union.
- A summer beverage prepared from the whey of churned milk, common among the inhabitants of the Shetland Islands.
Adjective
- Lacking strong features or characteristics; mild.
Examples
- a bland diet
- a bland oil
- A BLAND opening move, like ’AT’, might not set the board ablaze with points.
- bland comment
- The coffee was bland.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin blandus (“pleasant, flattering”).
Synonyms
flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, politic, savorless, savourless, smooth, suave, vapid, banal, beat, blah, bland, boring, cardboard, cold, colourless, dim, dingy, drab, dreich, drowsy, dull, dull as dishwater, faint, flaggy, gustless, ho-hum, humdrum, ingustible, intastable, lackluster, lame, languid, leaden, lifeless, longsome, mawkish, monotonous, muddy, mundane, no fun at parties, pedantic, pedestrian, plain, plodding, prosaic, prosy, sad, sapidless, smackless, snoozeworthy, sober, soporific, static, stodgy, straightforward, tame, tasteless, tedious, uncolorful, uncool, unholiday, uninteresting, unsavory, untasteable, vanilla, wallow, wallowish, wan, watery, waugh, weaksauce, wearish, wersh, wooden
Scrabble Score: 8
bland: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbland: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bland: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary