Definition of bland in English:

bland

adjective blandblænd

1Lacking strong features or characteristics and therefore uninteresting.
特点不鲜明的；枯燥乏味的
bland, mass-produced pop music
Example sentencesExamples
- The current station is far from perfect, but at least it has character, which this bland, uninspired new design fails to achieve.
- He stars as a sound engineer in a happy but bland marriage to an emotionally fragile woman with psychic abilities.
- This part of the movie is quite dull, mostly because of the bland one-dimensionality of the characters.
- From then on, the album becomes fairly bland and generic soft rock.
- Colors seem to be unnaturally muted, so that the entire movie has a soft, bland look to it.
- We started dancing, but rapidly became bored with the bland, unimaginative hip-hop that was being played.
- That bland description understates the drama and stakes of the investigation.
- His family now lived in a typically bland modern suburb but his heart lay with the little island where he grew up.
- The movie is so tame, so bland and so uninspired, it just feels like a wasted opportunity.
- It includes some of the most emotionally creative and technically brilliant music alongside the bland and inane.
- Its visuals are disappointingly mediocre, featuring bland and utterly uninspired track designs.
- The first few songs are bland and uninspiring public space music.
- If you don't use some essence of a stereotype, the characters are bland and you can't find the conflict.
- Its styling is bland, the engines lacklustre and interiors depressing.
- I feel sorry for today's youth being spoon-fed safe bland manufactured pop devoid of emotion.
- They can already sense how bland and uninteresting their relationship will be, how the years will yawn away and stretch to eternity.
- Fragile moments of poignant emotion are coupled with bland and lifeless battle scenes.
- While this helps in the credibility department, it makes the trial somewhat bland and characterless.
- These characters are so bland and dumb it's hard enough to remember their names let alone believe or care about them.
- The peripheral characters are given similarly bland treatment.
Synonyms
uninteresting, dull, boring, tedious, monotonous, dry, drab, dreary, wearisome
unexciting, unimaginative, uninspiring, uninspired, weak, insipid, colourless, lustreless, lacklustre, vapid, flat, stale, trite, vacuous, feeble, pallid, wishy-washy
limp, lame, tired, lifeless, torpid, unanimated, zestless, spiritless, sterile, anaemic, barren, tame, bloodless, antiseptic
middle-of-the-road, run-of-the-mill, commonplace, mediocre, nondescript, characterless, mundane, inoffensive, humdrum, prosaic
1. 1.1 (of food or drink) unseasoned, mild-tasting, or insipid.
  （食品，饮料）未加调料的，清淡的，无味的
  a bland and unadventurous vegetarian dish
  standardized bland beers of mediocre quality
  Example sentencesExamples
  It wasn't to be a bland stew of traditions but something strong and spicy.
  As far as I'm concerned organic food is a lot like the Progressive Party - soft, bland and somewhat dense.
  Chinese medicine has long advocated bland, unprocessed food for a long, healthy life.
  The dish was too bland, lacking flavour, and the aloe seemed not entirely fresh.
  If you can face it, bland foods such as toast or crackers may relieve feelings of nausea.
  The food was bland and unappealing, with no flavour she could tolerate.
  Supermarkets offer the same cosmetically perfect bland foods, from apples to bread to cheese.
  Favor simple, bland foods and cool drinks, and avoid alcohol and drinks with caffeine.
  These companies seemed to believe that what drinkers wanted to drink was bland beer that was fizzy and tasteless.
  The resultant fare was fresh enough, but the dressing was bland and thin.
  Apart from the potatoes whose saffron flavour was deep and delicious, this dish was so bland it made me wonder if I had lost my sense of taste.
  You can replace these by drinking plenty of bland liquids such as water and soda water.
  I'm not hugely hopeful as my other babies didn't seem to think much of the bland rice cereal.
  Serve a soft, bland diet that does not require a lot of chewing and encourage your child to drink plenty of fluids.
  She is a cake maker with a fine decorative sense but her cakes are bland and tasteless.
  Diced tuna is too soft and bland to leave any impression on your tongue or your mind unless served with wasabi cream.
  After a week of eating the bland food in our mess, meals like these really hit the spot.
  So if prepared foods are actually bland and nutritionally barren, what do they have going for them?
  When you feel better, try small amounts of bland foods, such as toast, applesauce or bananas.
  In another contrast to the perfect fish, the bed of too-hard beans with their thin, bland tomato sauce was disappointing.
  Synonyms
  tasteless, flavourless, insipid, mild, savourless, unflavoured, weak, thin, watery, watered-down, spiceless, unappetizing
  informal wishy-washy
2. 1.2 Showing no strong emotion.
  his expression was bland and unreadable
  他的表情漠然，叫人猜不透。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The poor boring, bland singer has to follow a dynamic superstar.
  He gave his friend an unintelligibly bland look, and trotted off into the distance with no comment.
  I found his voice bland, without any colouring or nuance, and some of his pronunciations were downright odd.
  I guess I'd rather have a bit of a reputation than be bland and boring.
  His eyes, although bland, were laced with an emotion that she could not place.
  He spoke in a voice so calm and bland, it stuck in the air like an emotionless reverberation.
  This even extends to some of the marquee stars, as Mary Jane looks particularly bland with flattened features.
  It had to be special to add a spark of emotion to his normally bland personality.
  The kids, besides looking like brothers, were bland and uninteresting.
  It is easiest to define first what its role should not be - bland reassurance.
  Her voice was bland, filled with as much emotion as the oatmeal my mother gave me for my meals.
  I hope he does something about the public image of his party and, more importantly, his dull, bland self.
  The simple repetition of bland reassurance that fails to address patients' fears is ineffective.
  This is a relatively dry track featuring two very bland commentators.
  With that peculiar bland expression adorning her features, she seemed so lost in her own thoughts.
  While the chemistry between the two leads is rather bland, there is no denying their emotion.
  He asked, instead, his same dead, flat, bland monotone staying in his voice.
  He grinned but said nothing as his features faded into a bland monotonous look.
  Synonyms
  temperate, mild, soft, calm, balmy, soothing, benign

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'gentle in manner'): from Latin blandus 'soft, smooth'.

In early use bland was ‘gentle in manner’, from Latin blandus ‘soft, smooth’. This Latin adjective also forms the base of the Middle English noun blandishment.

Rhymes

and, band, brand, expand, firsthand, gland, grand, hand, land, manned, misunderstand, offhand, rand, righthand, Samarkand, sand, stand, strand, thirdhand, underhand, undermanned, understand, unplanned, untanned, withstand

Definition of bland in US English:

bland

adjectiveblandblænd

1Lacking strong features or characteristics and therefore uninteresting.
特点不鲜明的；枯燥乏味的
rebelling against the bland uniformity
反对那种刻板的千篇一律。
Example sentencesExamples
- The first few songs are bland and uninspiring public space music.
- The movie is so tame, so bland and so uninspired, it just feels like a wasted opportunity.
- Its styling is bland, the engines lacklustre and interiors depressing.
- It includes some of the most emotionally creative and technically brilliant music alongside the bland and inane.
- The current station is far from perfect, but at least it has character, which this bland, uninspired new design fails to achieve.
- He stars as a sound engineer in a happy but bland marriage to an emotionally fragile woman with psychic abilities.
- His family now lived in a typically bland modern suburb but his heart lay with the little island where he grew up.
- That bland description understates the drama and stakes of the investigation.
- This part of the movie is quite dull, mostly because of the bland one-dimensionality of the characters.
- If you don't use some essence of a stereotype, the characters are bland and you can't find the conflict.
- We started dancing, but rapidly became bored with the bland, unimaginative hip-hop that was being played.
- While this helps in the credibility department, it makes the trial somewhat bland and characterless.
- Colors seem to be unnaturally muted, so that the entire movie has a soft, bland look to it.
- The peripheral characters are given similarly bland treatment.
- I feel sorry for today's youth being spoon-fed safe bland manufactured pop devoid of emotion.
- Fragile moments of poignant emotion are coupled with bland and lifeless battle scenes.
- From then on, the album becomes fairly bland and generic soft rock.
- They can already sense how bland and uninteresting their relationship will be, how the years will yawn away and stretch to eternity.
- These characters are so bland and dumb it's hard enough to remember their names let alone believe or care about them.
- Its visuals are disappointingly mediocre, featuring bland and utterly uninspired track designs.
Synonyms
uninteresting, dull, boring, tedious, monotonous, dry, drab, dreary, wearisome
1. 1.1 (of food or drink) mild or insipid.
  （食品，饮料）未加调料的，清淡的，无味的
  bland and unadventurous vegetarian dish
  bland beers of mediocre quality
  Example sentencesExamples
  Serve a soft, bland diet that does not require a lot of chewing and encourage your child to drink plenty of fluids.
  So if prepared foods are actually bland and nutritionally barren, what do they have going for them?
  She is a cake maker with a fine decorative sense but her cakes are bland and tasteless.
  After a week of eating the bland food in our mess, meals like these really hit the spot.
  The resultant fare was fresh enough, but the dressing was bland and thin.
  These companies seemed to believe that what drinkers wanted to drink was bland beer that was fizzy and tasteless.
  I'm not hugely hopeful as my other babies didn't seem to think much of the bland rice cereal.
  Apart from the potatoes whose saffron flavour was deep and delicious, this dish was so bland it made me wonder if I had lost my sense of taste.
  The dish was too bland, lacking flavour, and the aloe seemed not entirely fresh.
  Favor simple, bland foods and cool drinks, and avoid alcohol and drinks with caffeine.
  Chinese medicine has long advocated bland, unprocessed food for a long, healthy life.
  In another contrast to the perfect fish, the bed of too-hard beans with their thin, bland tomato sauce was disappointing.
  It wasn't to be a bland stew of traditions but something strong and spicy.
  If you can face it, bland foods such as toast or crackers may relieve feelings of nausea.
  When you feel better, try small amounts of bland foods, such as toast, applesauce or bananas.
  You can replace these by drinking plenty of bland liquids such as water and soda water.
  The food was bland and unappealing, with no flavour she could tolerate.
  As far as I'm concerned organic food is a lot like the Progressive Party - soft, bland and somewhat dense.
  Supermarkets offer the same cosmetically perfect bland foods, from apples to bread to cheese.
  Diced tuna is too soft and bland to leave any impression on your tongue or your mind unless served with wasabi cream.
  Synonyms
  tasteless, flavourless, insipid, mild, savourless, unflavoured, weak, thin, watery, watered-down, spiceless, unappetizing
2. 1.2 (of a person or behavior) showing no strong emotion; dull and unremarkable.
  （人或其行为）漠然的；平庸的；索然无味的
  his expression was bland and unreadable
  他的表情漠然，叫人猜不透。
  offering bland reassurance
  Example sentencesExamples
  I found his voice bland, without any colouring or nuance, and some of his pronunciations were downright odd.
  I hope he does something about the public image of his party and, more importantly, his dull, bland self.
  With that peculiar bland expression adorning her features, she seemed so lost in her own thoughts.
  The simple repetition of bland reassurance that fails to address patients' fears is ineffective.
  This even extends to some of the marquee stars, as Mary Jane looks particularly bland with flattened features.
  It is easiest to define first what its role should not be - bland reassurance.
  He spoke in a voice so calm and bland, it stuck in the air like an emotionless reverberation.
  I guess I'd rather have a bit of a reputation than be bland and boring.
  The poor boring, bland singer has to follow a dynamic superstar.
  He asked, instead, his same dead, flat, bland monotone staying in his voice.
  While the chemistry between the two leads is rather bland, there is no denying their emotion.
  Her voice was bland, filled with as much emotion as the oatmeal my mother gave me for my meals.
  He grinned but said nothing as his features faded into a bland monotonous look.
  His eyes, although bland, were laced with an emotion that she could not place.
  It had to be special to add a spark of emotion to his normally bland personality.
  The kids, besides looking like brothers, were bland and uninteresting.
  This is a relatively dry track featuring two very bland commentators.
  He gave his friend an unintelligibly bland look, and trotted off into the distance with no comment.
  Synonyms
  temperate, mild, soft, calm, balmy, soothing, benign

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘gentle in manner’): from Latin blandus ‘soft, smooth’.

词汇	bland
释义	Definition of bland in English: bland adjective blandblænd 1Lacking strong features or characteristics and therefore uninteresting. 特点不鲜明的；枯燥乏味的 bland, mass-produced pop music Example sentencesExamples The current station is far from perfect, but at least it has character, which this bland, uninspired new design fails to achieve. He stars as a sound engineer in a happy but bland marriage to an emotionally fragile woman with psychic abilities. This part of the movie is quite dull, mostly because of the bland one-dimensionality of the characters. From then on, the album becomes fairly bland and generic soft rock. Colors seem to be unnaturally muted, so that the entire movie has a soft, bland look to it. We started dancing, but rapidly became bored with the bland, unimaginative hip-hop that was being played. That bland description understates the drama and stakes of the investigation. His family now lived in a typically bland modern suburb but his heart lay with the little island where he grew up. The movie is so tame, so bland and so uninspired, it just feels like a wasted opportunity. It includes some of the most emotionally creative and technically brilliant music alongside the bland and inane. Its visuals are disappointingly mediocre, featuring bland and utterly uninspired track designs. The first few songs are bland and uninspiring public space music. If you don't use some essence of a stereotype, the characters are bland and you can't find the conflict. Its styling is bland, the engines lacklustre and interiors depressing. I feel sorry for today's youth being spoon-fed safe bland manufactured pop devoid of emotion. They can already sense how bland and uninteresting their relationship will be, how the years will yawn away and stretch to eternity. Fragile moments of poignant emotion are coupled with bland and lifeless battle scenes. While this helps in the credibility department, it makes the trial somewhat bland and characterless. These characters are so bland and dumb it's hard enough to remember their names let alone believe or care about them. The peripheral characters are given similarly bland treatment. Synonyms uninteresting, dull, boring, tedious, monotonous, dry, drab, dreary, wearisome unexciting, unimaginative, uninspiring, uninspired, weak, insipid, colourless, lustreless, lacklustre, vapid, flat, stale, trite, vacuous, feeble, pallid, wishy-washy limp, lame, tired, lifeless, torpid, unanimated, zestless, spiritless, sterile, anaemic, barren, tame, bloodless, antiseptic middle-of-the-road, run-of-the-mill, commonplace, mediocre, nondescript, characterless, mundane, inoffensive, humdrum, prosaic 1.1 (of food or drink) unseasoned, mild-tasting, or insipid. （食品，饮料）未加调料的，清淡的，无味的 a bland and unadventurous vegetarian dish standardized bland beers of mediocre quality Example sentencesExamples It wasn't to be a bland stew of traditions but something strong and spicy. As far as I'm concerned organic food is a lot like the Progressive Party - soft, bland and somewhat dense. Chinese medicine has long advocated bland, unprocessed food for a long, healthy life. The dish was too bland, lacking flavour, and the aloe seemed not entirely fresh. If you can face it, bland foods such as toast or crackers may relieve feelings of nausea. The food was bland and unappealing, with no flavour she could tolerate. Supermarkets offer the same cosmetically perfect bland foods, from apples to bread to cheese. Favor simple, bland foods and cool drinks, and avoid alcohol and drinks with caffeine. These companies seemed to believe that what drinkers wanted to drink was bland beer that was fizzy and tasteless. The resultant fare was fresh enough, but the dressing was bland and thin. Apart from the potatoes whose saffron flavour was deep and delicious, this dish was so bland it made me wonder if I had lost my sense of taste. You can replace these by drinking plenty of bland liquids such as water and soda water. I'm not hugely hopeful as my other babies didn't seem to think much of the bland rice cereal. Serve a soft, bland diet that does not require a lot of chewing and encourage your child to drink plenty of fluids. She is a cake maker with a fine decorative sense but her cakes are bland and tasteless. Diced tuna is too soft and bland to leave any impression on your tongue or your mind unless served with wasabi cream. After a week of eating the bland food in our mess, meals like these really hit the spot. So if prepared foods are actually bland and nutritionally barren, what do they have going for them? When you feel better, try small amounts of bland foods, such as toast, applesauce or bananas. In another contrast to the perfect fish, the bed of too-hard beans with their thin, bland tomato sauce was disappointing. Synonyms tasteless, flavourless, insipid, mild, savourless, unflavoured, weak, thin, watery, watered-down, spiceless, unappetizing informal wishy-washy 1.2 Showing no strong emotion. his expression was bland and unreadable 他的表情漠然，叫人猜不透。 Example sentencesExamples The poor boring, bland singer has to follow a dynamic superstar. He gave his friend an unintelligibly bland look, and trotted off into the distance with no comment. I found his voice bland, without any colouring or nuance, and some of his pronunciations were downright odd. I guess I'd rather have a bit of a reputation than be bland and boring. His eyes, although bland, were laced with an emotion that she could not place. He spoke in a voice so calm and bland, it stuck in the air like an emotionless reverberation. This even extends to some of the marquee stars, as Mary Jane looks particularly bland with flattened features. It had to be special to add a spark of emotion to his normally bland personality. The kids, besides looking like brothers, were bland and uninteresting. It is easiest to define first what its role should not be - bland reassurance. Her voice was bland, filled with as much emotion as the oatmeal my mother gave me for my meals. I hope he does something about the public image of his party and, more importantly, his dull, bland self. The simple repetition of bland reassurance that fails to address patients' fears is ineffective. This is a relatively dry track featuring two very bland commentators. With that peculiar bland expression adorning her features, she seemed so lost in her own thoughts. While the chemistry between the two leads is rather bland, there is no denying their emotion. He asked, instead, his same dead, flat, bland monotone staying in his voice. He grinned but said nothing as his features faded into a bland monotonous look. Synonyms temperate, mild, soft, calm, balmy, soothing, benign Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'gentle in manner'): from Latin blandus 'soft, smooth'. In early use bland was ‘gentle in manner’, from Latin blandus ‘soft, smooth’. This Latin adjective also forms the base of the Middle English noun blandishment. Rhymes and, band, brand, expand, firsthand, gland, grand, hand, land, manned, misunderstand, offhand, rand, righthand, Samarkand, sand, stand, strand, thirdhand, underhand, undermanned, understand, unplanned, untanned, withstand Definition of bland in US English: bland adjectiveblandblænd 1Lacking strong features or characteristics and therefore uninteresting. 特点不鲜明的；枯燥乏味的 rebelling against the bland uniformity 反对那种刻板的千篇一律。 Example sentencesExamples The first few songs are bland and uninspiring public space music. The movie is so tame, so bland and so uninspired, it just feels like a wasted opportunity. Its styling is bland, the engines lacklustre and interiors depressing. It includes some of the most emotionally creative and technically brilliant music alongside the bland and inane. The current station is far from perfect, but at least it has character, which this bland, uninspired new design fails to achieve. He stars as a sound engineer in a happy but bland marriage to an emotionally fragile woman with psychic abilities. His family now lived in a typically bland modern suburb but his heart lay with the little island where he grew up. That bland description understates the drama and stakes of the investigation. This part of the movie is quite dull, mostly because of the bland one-dimensionality of the characters. If you don't use some essence of a stereotype, the characters are bland and you can't find the conflict. We started dancing, but rapidly became bored with the bland, unimaginative hip-hop that was being played. While this helps in the credibility department, it makes the trial somewhat bland and characterless. Colors seem to be unnaturally muted, so that the entire movie has a soft, bland look to it. The peripheral characters are given similarly bland treatment. I feel sorry for today's youth being spoon-fed safe bland manufactured pop devoid of emotion. Fragile moments of poignant emotion are coupled with bland and lifeless battle scenes. From then on, the album becomes fairly bland and generic soft rock. They can already sense how bland and uninteresting their relationship will be, how the years will yawn away and stretch to eternity. These characters are so bland and dumb it's hard enough to remember their names let alone believe or care about them. Its visuals are disappointingly mediocre, featuring bland and utterly uninspired track designs. Synonyms uninteresting, dull, boring, tedious, monotonous, dry, drab, dreary, wearisome 1.1 (of food or drink) mild or insipid. （食品，饮料）未加调料的，清淡的，无味的 bland and unadventurous vegetarian dish bland beers of mediocre quality Example sentencesExamples Serve a soft, bland diet that does not require a lot of chewing and encourage your child to drink plenty of fluids. So if prepared foods are actually bland and nutritionally barren, what do they have going for them? She is a cake maker with a fine decorative sense but her cakes are bland and tasteless. After a week of eating the bland food in our mess, meals like these really hit the spot. The resultant fare was fresh enough, but the dressing was bland and thin. These companies seemed to believe that what drinkers wanted to drink was bland beer that was fizzy and tasteless. I'm not hugely hopeful as my other babies didn't seem to think much of the bland rice cereal. Apart from the potatoes whose saffron flavour was deep and delicious, this dish was so bland it made me wonder if I had lost my sense of taste. The dish was too bland, lacking flavour, and the aloe seemed not entirely fresh. Favor simple, bland foods and cool drinks, and avoid alcohol and drinks with caffeine. Chinese medicine has long advocated bland, unprocessed food for a long, healthy life. In another contrast to the perfect fish, the bed of too-hard beans with their thin, bland tomato sauce was disappointing. It wasn't to be a bland stew of traditions but something strong and spicy. If you can face it, bland foods such as toast or crackers may relieve feelings of nausea. When you feel better, try small amounts of bland foods, such as toast, applesauce or bananas. You can replace these by drinking plenty of bland liquids such as water and soda water. The food was bland and unappealing, with no flavour she could tolerate. As far as I'm concerned organic food is a lot like the Progressive Party - soft, bland and somewhat dense. Supermarkets offer the same cosmetically perfect bland foods, from apples to bread to cheese. Diced tuna is too soft and bland to leave any impression on your tongue or your mind unless served with wasabi cream. Synonyms tasteless, flavourless, insipid, mild, savourless, unflavoured, weak, thin, watery, watered-down, spiceless, unappetizing 1.2 (of a person or behavior) showing no strong emotion; dull and unremarkable. （人或其行为）漠然的；平庸的；索然无味的 his expression was bland and unreadable 他的表情漠然，叫人猜不透。 offering bland reassurance Example sentencesExamples I found his voice bland, without any colouring or nuance, and some of his pronunciations were downright odd. I hope he does something about the public image of his party and, more importantly, his dull, bland self. With that peculiar bland expression adorning her features, she seemed so lost in her own thoughts. The simple repetition of bland reassurance that fails to address patients' fears is ineffective. This even extends to some of the marquee stars, as Mary Jane looks particularly bland with flattened features. It is easiest to define first what its role should not be - bland reassurance. He spoke in a voice so calm and bland, it stuck in the air like an emotionless reverberation. I guess I'd rather have a bit of a reputation than be bland and boring. The poor boring, bland singer has to follow a dynamic superstar. He asked, instead, his same dead, flat, bland monotone staying in his voice. While the chemistry between the two leads is rather bland, there is no denying their emotion. Her voice was bland, filled with as much emotion as the oatmeal my mother gave me for my meals. He grinned but said nothing as his features faded into a bland monotonous look. His eyes, although bland, were laced with an emotion that she could not place. It had to be special to add a spark of emotion to his normally bland personality. The kids, besides looking like brothers, were bland and uninteresting. This is a relatively dry track featuring two very bland commentators. He gave his friend an unintelligibly bland look, and trotted off into the distance with no comment. Synonyms temperate, mild, soft, calm, balmy, soothing, benign Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘gentle in manner’): from Latin blandus ‘soft, smooth’.
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