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bland
Overview of adj bland
The adj bland has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid -- (lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea")
2. bland, flat -- (lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke")
3. politic, smooth, suave, bland -- (smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"; "the hostess averted a confrontation between two guests with a diplomatic change of subject"; "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"; "affable, suave, moderate men...smugly convinced of their respectability" - Ezra Pound)
Grep of noun bland
bland diet
blandfordia
blandishment
blandness
scrubland
Grep of verb bland
blandish
Antonyms of adj bland
3 senses of bland
Sense 1
bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid
INDIRECT (VIA tasteless) -> tasty
Sense 2
bland, flat
INDIRECT (VIA unstimulating) -> stimulating
Sense 3
politic, smooth, suave, bland
INDIRECT (VIA diplomatic) -> undiplomatic
Similarity of adj bland
3 senses of bland
Sense 1
bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid
=> tasteless (vs. tasty)
Sense 2
bland, flat
=> unstimulating (vs. stimulating), unexciting
Sense 3
politic, smooth, suave, bland
=> diplomatic (vs. undiplomatic), diplomatical
Pertainyms of adj bland
Attributes of adj bland
Domain of adj bland
Domain Terms of adj bland
Familiarity of adj bland
bland used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Grep of adj bland
bland
Grep of adv bland
blandly
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