Definition of bland

"bland" in the adjective sense

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 manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"

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Quotations for bland

'Twas a hand
White, delicate, dimpled, warm, languid, and bland
The hand of a woman is often, in youth.
Somewhat rough, somewhat red, somewhat graceless, in truth;
Does its beauty refine, as its pulses grow calm,
Or as sorrow has crossed the life line in the palm? [ Lord Lytton ]

Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland, odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves. [ Countess of Blessington ]

bland in Scrabble®

The word bland is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters bland:

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bland in Words With Friends™

The word bland is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

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Words within the letters of bland

2 letter words in bland (4 words)

3 letter words in bland (8 words)

4 letter words in bland (3 words)

5 letter words in bland (1 word)

Word Growth involving bland

Shorter words in bland

an and land

la land

Longer words containing bland

blander

blandest

blandified

blandifies

blandify blandifying

blandiloquence

blandiloquent

blandiloquous

blandish blandished

blandish blandisher blandishers

blandish blandishes

blandish blandishing blandishingly

blandish blandishment blandishments

blandly

blandness

scrubland scrublands

shrubland shrublands