bland

4 definitions found

bland - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Bland \Bland\, a. [L. blandus, of unknown origin.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. Mild; soft; gentle; smooth and soothing in manner; suave;
        as, a bland temper; bland persuasion; a bland sycophant.
        "Exhilarating vapor bland." --Milton.
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     2. Having soft and soothing qualities; not drastic or
        irritating; not stimulating; as, a bland oil; a bland
        diet.
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bland - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  bland
      adj 1: lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid
             hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid
             beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: bland, flat, flavorless,
             flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless,
             vapid]
      2: lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland
         little drama"; "a flat joke" [syn: bland, flat]
      3: 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" [syn: politic,
         smooth, suave, bland]

bland - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Bland, MO (city, FIPS 6256)
    Location: 38.30058 N, 91.63255 W
    Population (1990): 651 (277 housing units)
    Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 65014
  Bland, VA
    Zip code(s): 24315

bland - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  128 Moby Thesaurus words for "bland":
     abstract, adulatory, balmy, banal, bare, barren, blah, blandishing,
     blank, blarneying, bleached, boring, broad, buttery, cajoling,
     calm, changeable, characterless, civilized, clear, collective,
     complimentary, composed, cool, courtierly, courtly, devoid,
     disarming, dull, empty, faint, fair-spoken, fawning, featureless,
     fine-spoken, flat, flattering, fulsome, general, generalized,
     generic, gentle, glib, good-natured, gushing, halfhearted, hollow,
     honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, inane, indecisive,
     indefinite, indeterminate, infirm of purpose, infirm of will,
     ingratiating, insincere, insinuating, insipid, insouciant,
     irresolute, judicious, lenient, mealymouthed, mild, mild as milk,
     milk-and-water, milky, moderate, mushy, namby-pamby, nebulous,
     neutral, nonchalant, nonspecific, nonviolent, null, null and void,
     obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, pacifistic, peaceable, peaceful,
     prudent, sapless, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken,
     smooth-tongued, smug, soapy, sober, soft, soft-soaping,
     soft-spoken, soothing, suave, suave-spoken, sycophantic, tame,
     tasteless, temperate, uncharacterized, unctuous, undifferentiated,
     unemotional, uninteresting, unrelieved, unruffled, unspecified,
     urbane, vacant, vacuous, vague, vapid, void, waterish, watery,
     wheedling, white, wide, wishy-washy, with nothing inside,
     without content