BLAND
What does "BLAND" mean?
Lacking strong flavor, character, or interest; dull and unremarkable.
Meanings
- Having little or no strong taste; mild or insipid. The soup was watery and bland.
- Dull, unexciting, or lacking distinctive qualities. His speech was polished but bland.
- Showing a smooth, unruffled, sometimes deliberately neutral manner. She gave a bland smile and revealed nothing. formal
Did you know?
- 'Bland' and 'blandishment' share a root: the Latin 'blandus' meant charming and seductive, so a word for sweet-talking flattery and a word for boring food grew from the same charm.
Word origin
From Latin 'blandus' meaning 'smooth, soft, caressing, flattering' — so the original sense was pleasantly gentle, and only later soured into 'boringly mild'.
Remember it
BLAND = B + LAND; bland is the flat, featureless LAND of flavor where nothing stands out.
A little poem
No salt, no spark, no edge to catch the tongue-
a quiet room where nothing's lost or won.
couplet
Wordplay
- I asked the chef why the dish had no opinion. He said it was just trying to please everyone.
What it teaches
Smoothing off every edge to offend no one is its own kind of failure - you become impossible to remember.
Quick facts
What does BLAND mean?
Lacking strong flavor, character, or interest; dull and unremarkable.
Is BLAND a valid word?
Yes — BLAND is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is BLAND?
BLAND has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does BLAND come from?
From Latin 'blandus' meaning 'smooth, soft, caressing, flattering' — so the original sense was pleasantly gentle, and only later soured into 'boringly mild'.
What can BLAND teach us?
Smoothing off every edge to offend no one is its own kind of failure - you become impossible to remember.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.