bland
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
lacking taste or flavor or tang
a bland diet
Related & opposite
- tastelessness derivation
- blandness derivation
- flatness derivation
- tasteless similar to
Sense 2 adjective
lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
a bland little drama
Related & opposite
- flatness derivation
- unexciting similar to
Sense 3 adjective
smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage
Related & opposite
- blandness derivation
- suavity derivation
- diplomatical similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | tastelessness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | blandness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | flatness |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | tasteless |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | flatness |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | unexciting |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | blandness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | suavity |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | diplomatical |