Synonyms for bland
blændbland

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1. bland

   Synonyms:
   courteous, genial, polished, polite, refined, reserved, urbane

   Antonyms:
   abrupt, bluff, blunt, blustering, bold, brusk, coarse, discourteous, frank, impolite, inconsiderate, open, plain-spoken, rough, rude, uncivil, unmannerly

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1. bland

   Synonyms:
   soft, mild, gentle, complaisant, courteous, affable, gracious, tender, benign

   Antonyms:
   harsh, abrupt, rough

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1. bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapidadjective

   lacking taste or flavor or tang

   "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"

   Synonyms:
   plane, smooth, two-dimensional, flavorless, categoric, matt, savourless, jejune, insipid, level, monotonic, compressed, unconditional, matted, suave, vapid, categorical, monotonous, prostrate, matte, monotone, savorless, flat, mat, flavourless, politic

   Antonyms:
   stimulating, undiplomatic, tasty

2. bland, flatadjective

   lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting

   "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke"

   Synonyms:
   plane, smooth, two-dimensional, flavorless, categoric, matt, savourless, insipid, level, monotonic, compressed, unconditional, matted, suave, vapid, categorical, monotonous, prostrate, matte, monotone, savorless, flat, mat, flavourless, politic

   Antonyms:
   tasty, stimulating, undiplomatic

3. politic, smooth, suave, blandadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   smooth, fluid, placid, savourless, insipid, tranquil, unruffled, still, quiet, flavorless, flavourless, suave, vapid, savorless, legato, debonair, debonnaire, flat, debonaire, fluent, liquid, politic

   Antonyms:
   tasty, undiplomatic, stimulating

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1. blandadjective

   Synonyms:
   soft, mild, gentle, not harsh

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1. blandadjective

   Synonyms:
   suave, mollifying, affable, complaisant, soothing, emollient, demulsive, assuasive

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1. List of paraphrases for "bland":

   anodyne, insipid

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1. Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett:

   People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.

2. Alex Kumar:

   There's no variation in the environment, it's dark, it's white, and it's bland. It's monotonous and people really underestimate that.

3. Sara Peternell:

   This idea of giving them ‘smooshy,’ bland, wallpaper-tasting rice cereal because we believe it’s either easier on their taste buds or easier on their digestive system is becoming a very outdated first-foods-for-babies recommendation.

4. Bernie Sanders:

   Clearly if Sandra Bland, who was a middle class black woman, had been a middle class white woman, it is unlikely that the police would have treated her in the same way, unarmed African-Americans have been abused and sometimes killed while in police custody. Clearly these are issues that must be dealt with and changed.

5. Nick Pappas:

   Passing out traditional material and flyers and trying to sell shirts, no one changes their political beliefs based on a shirt, what we need to do is try and get conservative entertainment out there in the movies, we need to figure out other ways to change the culture on the ground level and just not focus on generic bland messaging. Unfortunately not enough booths are doing it.