Synonyms for bland
blændbland

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.8 / 4 votes

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. Bernie Sanders:

   This video of the arrest of Sandra Bland shows totally outrageous police behavior, no one should be yanked from her car, thrown to the ground, assaulted and arrested for a minor traffic stop. The result is that three days later she is dead in her jail cell.

2. David Stamps:

   Breonna Taylor, like Sandra Bland and other Black women, are often relegated to the back row as the emphasis is typically placed on the systemic racism and brutality that Black men face, this is why Breonna Taylor is an icon. Sandra Bland reminds us that we need to #SayHerName and that all Black life matters.

3. Kimberly Handy-Jones:

   Even before my son Cordale was murdered by St. Paul police, my heart cried out for Sandra Bland, Eric Gardner, Alton Sterling.

4. Scott Walker:

   I'd rather have bland or uncharismatic than dumb or ignorant, or corrupt or any of the other things that they could label other would-be candidates out there. Or old, for that matter.

5. 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.