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| 1. | [ adjective ] lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics | |
| Examples: | "a bland pudding" "a bland diet for her irritated stomach" |
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| Related terms: | pungent | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] lacking taste or flavor or tang | |
| Synonyms: | flavorless flavourless insipid savorless vapid flat | |
| Examples: | "a bland diet" "insipid hospital food" "flavorless supermarket tomatoes" "vapid beer" "vapid tea" |
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| Related terms: | tasteless | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] lacking taste or flavor or tang | |
| Synonyms: | flavorless flavourless insipid savorless savourless vapid flat | |
| Examples: | "a bland diet" "insipid hospital food" "flavorless supermarket tomatoes" "vapid beer" "vapid tea" |
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| Related terms: | tasteless | |
| 4. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1028 | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting | |
| Synonyms: | flat | |
| Examples: | "a bland little drama" "a flat joke" |
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| Related terms: | unstimulating | |
| Similar spelling: |
blandly Blandon Blind blond blend blandish Blanding blonde blende blunder Blondin blunted blindly Blanton blinded blender blended blinder Blundell Blondell blend_in blinding blending blunt Beland Boland blintz blintze bluntly blamed Bolander |
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