Antonyms for bland
blændbland

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.8 / 4 votes

1. bland

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

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. bland

   Antonyms:
   harsh, abrupt, rough

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

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"

   Antonyms:
   stimulating, undiplomatic, tasty

   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

2. bland, flatadjective

   lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting

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

   Antonyms:
   tasty, stimulating, undiplomatic

   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

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"

   Antonyms:
   tasty, undiplomatic, stimulating

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

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1. blandadjective

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

How to use bland in a sentence?

1. Andrew MacDougall:

   The country will be in perfectly safe, if bland, hands. That might not be a bad thing in a world gone insane.

2. 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.

3. Sue Grafton:

   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.

4. John Cleese:

   I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

5. Eric Bland:

   Certainly there were questions by my clients because after she unfortunately fell, she was airlifted to a hospital and she had a traumatic brain injury, Gloria Satterfield never was able to communicate with them for the next three weeks until Gloria Satterfield died, so, it was Alex Murdaugh who told the story of that Gloria Satterfield had tripped and fell down the stairs over Eric Bland dogs.

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