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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin blandus (“pleasant, flattering”).
Adjective
bland (comparative blander, superlative blandest)
- Having a soothing effect; not irritating or stimulating.
a bland oil
a bland diet
- Lacking in taste or flavor.
- Synonyms: flat, tasteless, wallow; see also Thesaurus:insipid
The coffee was bland.
- Lacking in vigor.
2012, John Shepherd, David Horn, Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: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 […]
- (figurative) Lacking interest; boring; dull.
- Synonyms: lackluster, wan; see also Thesaurus:boring, Thesaurus:dim
- bland comment
1996, “Country House”, in The Great Escape, performed by Blur:He's reading Balzac and knocking back Prozac / It's a helping hand that makes you feel wonderfully bland
- (now rare) Mild; soft, gentle, balmy; smooth in manner; suave.
1818, John Keats, Sonnet:Where didst thou find, young Bard, thy sounding lyre? / Where the bland accent, and the tender tone?
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:“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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Translations
having a soothing effect; not irritating or stimulating
lacking in taste or flavor
- Armenian: անհամ (hy) (anham)
- Bikol Central: matabang (bcl)
- Bulgarian: безвку́сен (bg) (bezvkúsen)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 乏味的 (zh) (fáwèi de)
- Czech: mdlý (cs)
- Dutch: smaakloos (nl), flauw (nl)
- Eastern Bontoc: lamset
- Finnish: mitäänsanomaton (fi), mieto (fi), mauton (fi)
- French: fade (fr) m or f
- German: fad (de), geschmacklos (de), langweilig (de)
- Greek: άνοστος (el) m (ánostos), άγευστος (el) m (ágefstos)
- Italian: insipido (it), fiacco (it)
- Korean: 싱겁다 (ko) (singgeopda)
- Ladino: shavdo
- Maori: waimeha, makiha, mākihakiha
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: smakløs (no), intetsigende
- Ottoman Turkish: طاتسز (tatsız), لذتسز (lezzetsiz), یاوان (yavan)
- Persian: بیمزه (fa) (bi-maze)
- Plautdietsch: fleiw
- Polish: bezbarwny (pl) m, mdły (pl) m, nijaki (pl) m, bez smaku, blady (pl)
- Portuguese: insosso (pt)
- Russian: безвку́сный (ru) (bezvkúsnyj), пре́сный (ru) (présnyj)
- Spanish: soso (es), insulso (es), ñoño (es), insípido (es), desabrido (es)
- Swedish: fadd (sv), smaklös (sv), svag (sv), mild (sv), intetsägande (sv), lam (sv), tam (sv)
- Tagalog: matabang
- Ukrainian: безсма́ковий (bezsmákovyj)
- Vietnamese: lạt (vi), nhạt (vi)
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lacking in vigor
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(fig.) lacking interest; boring; dull
mild; soft; gentle; smooth in manner; suave
- Bulgarian: мек (bg) (mek), не́жен (bg) (néžen), ла́скав (bg) (láskav)
- Dutch: mild (nl), zacht (nl)
- Finnish: väritön (fi), mitäänsanomaton (fi), vaisu (fi)
- French: doux (fr) m, douce (fr) f
- Galician: suave (gl) m or f
- German: sanftmütig, gelassen (de), blass (de)
- Greek: ήπιος (el) m (ípios), μαλακός (el) m (malakós), απαλός (el) m (apalós)
- Italian: blando (it) m
- Polish: delikatny (pl), łagodny (pl) m
- Portuguese: suave (pt)
- Romanian: prevenitor (ro) m, afabil (ro), gentil (ro), pritenos
- Russian: мя́гкий (ru) (mjáxkij), не́жный (ru) (néžnyj), ла́сковый (ru) (láskovyj)
- Spanish: tenue (es), desabrido (es), simple (es), suave (es), débil (es), insípido (es)
- Swedish: mild (sv), vän (sv), blid (sv)
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Etymology 2
From Middle English blanden, blonden, from Old English blandan (“to blend, mix, mingle; trouble, disturb, corrupt”), from Proto-Germanic *blandaną (“to mix, blend”). Cognate with Icelandic blanda, Norwegian, Danish blande, Swedish blanda. See also blend.
Verb
bland (third-person singular simple present blands, present participle blanding, simple past and past participle blanded)
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To mix; blend; mingle.
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To connect; associate.
Etymology 3
From Middle English bland, from Old English bland, blond (“blending, mixture, confusion”), from Proto-Germanic *blandą (“a mixing, mixture”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to grow turbid, dim, see badly, be blind”). Cognate with Icelandic blanda (“a mixture of liquids, especially of hot whey and water”).
Alternative forms
Noun
bland (countable and uncountable, plural blands)
- (UK dialectal) Mixture; union.
- A summer beverage prepared from the whey of churned milk, common among the inhabitants of the Shetland Islands.
- Hypernym: fermented milk product
- Coordinate terms: kefir, koumiss
Derived terms
References
Danish
Verb
bland
- imperative of blande
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin blandus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
bland (strong nominative masculine singular blander, not comparable)
- (medicine) bland
Declension
Positive forms of bland (uncomparable)
Further reading
- “bland” in Duden online
- “bland” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Icelandic
Pronunciation
Noun
bland n (genitive singular blands, no plural)
- mix
Declension
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Related terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
bland
- imperative of blande
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
bland
- imperative of blande
Swedish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Preposition
bland
- among
Derived terms