Meaning of bland | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having a soothing effect; not irritating or stimulating.
2. soft
3. Lacking in taste or flavor.
4. Lacking in vigor.
5. flabby
6. Lacking interest; boring; dull.
   figuratively
7. cowardly
8. Mild; soft, gentle, balmy; smooth in manner; suave.
   archaic
9. flat

Equivalents

Examples

“a bland oil”

“a bland diet”

“The coffee was bland.”

“First and foremost, alternative country artists generally claim to reject mainstream country music as musically indistinguishable from bland pop music, as lyrically superficial, and as having no artistic merit […]”

“bland comment”

“He's reading Balzac and knocking back Prozac / It's a helping hand that makes you feel wonderfully bland”

“Where didst thou find, young Bard, thy sounding lyre? / Where the bland accent, and the tender tone?”

““A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.”

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