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Bland

Definitions: Bland

Bland

Adjective

1. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics; "a bland pudding"; "a bland diet for her irritated stomach".

2. Lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea".

3. Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bland" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Bland \Bland\, adjective. [Latin expression blandus, of unknown origin.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Bland

Synonyms: flat (adj), flavorless (adj), flavourless (adj), insipid (adj), savorless (adj), savourless (adj), vapid (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: pungent (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Bland

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Courtesy

Fine spoken, fair spoken, soft-spoken; honey-mouthed, honey-tongued; oily, bland; obliging, conciliatory, complaisant, complacent; obsequious.

Feebleness

Adjective: feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight.

Insipidity

Adjective: bland, void of taste; insipid; tasteless, gustless, savorless; ingustible, mawkish, milk and water, weak, stale, flat, vapid, fade, wishy-washy, mild; untasted.

Moderation

Unexciting, unirritating; soft, bland, oily, demulcent, lenitive, anodyne; hypnotic; sedative; antiorgastic, anaphrodisiac.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Bland

English words defined with "bland": Arbutus unedobland diet, blandlydimensionalFaair-spoken, flat, flavorless, flavourless, flummeryimpregnably, insipid, Irish strawberryObtundentpop, pop musicsavorless, savourless, strawberry treeThe gentle craftulcer dietvapid. (references)
Etymologies containing "bland": Blandation. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Bland" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Swedish (among, amongst, mid, of, with).

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Modern Usage: Bland

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Can I get a side of bland with that bland? (Angel; writing credit: Letcia Dornelles)

You useless piles of bland flesh! (Star Trek; writing credit: Walter Black; William Hamilton)

Movie/TV Titles

Åsa-Nisse bland grevar och baroner (1961)

En Piga bland pigor (1924)

Kapten Grogg bland andra konstiga kroppar (1920)

Bella bland kryddor och kriminella (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Bland

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bland Ambition: From Adams to Quayle--The Cranks, Criminals, Tax Cheats, and Golfers Who Made It to Vice President (reference)

  • Bland Beginning (reference)

  • Charley Bland (reference)

  • On the fringe of fame : the career of Richard Bland Lee II in the South and West, 1797-1875 (reference)

  • Success! The Glenn Bland Method (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Bland

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Bland

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

A Great Surgeon. : (Dr. Bland Sutton.) / Elf [pseud.].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Childlike and -- Bland.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Bland".

PlayCaption
Ashen; balmy; bland; caressing; comfortable; cool; cushy; delicate; diffuse; dim; dimmed; dulcet; dull; dusky; faint; gentle; gravy; hazy; lenient; light; low; low-key; mellifluous; mellow; melodious; mild; misty; murmured; muted; pale; pallid; pastel; pl.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Bland

AuthorQuotation

Friedrich Nietzsche

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Bland

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Bland aerosols, often made from solutions of salt or bicarbonate of soda, are inhaled. (references)

Try having a bland snack such as toast or crackers and apple juice before your appointment. (references)

Thus, treatment focused on hospitalization with bed rest and prescription of special bland foods. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Bland

"Bland" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 71.54% of the time. "Bland" is used about 621 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)71.54%44513,012
Noun (proper)28.46%17723,322
                    Total100.00%621N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Bland

The following table summarizes the usage of "bland" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
BlandLast name12,0001,028
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Bland


1. Bland, MO (city, FIPS 6256)
Location: 38.30058 N, 91.63255 W
Population (1990): 651 (277 housing units)
Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 65014
Country: USA


2. Bland, VA
Zip Code(s): 24315
Country: USA

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Expressions: Bland

Expressions using "bland": bland County bland diet. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "bland": bland-looking.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bland

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
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per Day

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206

  bland ulcer diet

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  bobby blue bland

61

  bland county school

5

  bland

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  bobby blue bland lyrics

4

  bobby bland

44

  bland altman

4

  richard bland college

39

  bland county

4

  bland va

36

  bland jeff

4

  bland food

27

  auction bland kenny

4

  bland farm

17

  jeffrey bland

3

  bland missouri

13

  john bland

3

  bland food diet

13

  bland diet dog

3

  richard bland

11

  bland diet menu

3

  bland diet recipe

8

  ann bland paula

3

  bland college community richard

8

  bland high school

3

  bland county virginia

8

  bland virginia

3

  tony bland

8

  bland king leblanc

3

  bland park

7

  bland library regional smyth

3

  bland isd

7

  bland recipe

3

  bland messenger

6

  eleanor taylor bland

3

  bland james

6

  act allison bland

3

  bland nate

6

  city of bland

3
  

bland diet it

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bland

Language Translations for "bland"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

qetësues (anodyne, assuagement, balmy, calming, comforting, demulcent, depressant, drug, easeful, lenitive, pacificatory, painkiller, palliative, paregoric, reposeful, restful, sedative, soother, soothing, tranquilizer), i sjellshëm (amiable, complaisant, courteous, courtly, delicate, discreet, fair-spoken, gallant, genteel, good, kind, kindly, mannerly, nice, polite, suave, well bred, well mannered, well-behaved), i shpërlarë (bald, inexpressive), i njerëzishëm (courteous, human, humane, polite, urbane), i butë (balmy, Clement, cottony, creamy, delicate, doughy, downy, ductile, easygoing, facile, feathery, flabby, genial, gentle, lenient, limp, meek, mellow, melting, merciful, mild, moderate, mushy, non-rigid, permissive, pillowy, placable, pulpy, quick, samel, silken, silky, soft, soft spoken, squashy, tame, temperate, tender, velvety, yielding). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏لطيف (affable, agreeable, amiable, benign, charming, civil, civilized, complaisance, complaisant, courteous, courtly, decent, delicate, fair, fair-spoken, fine, friendly, genial, gentle, good natured, gracious, handsome, kind, kindly, light, mild, nice, pet, pleasant, polite, poppet, pretty, refreshing, smooth, soft, suave, sweet, tender, tenuous, thin, urbane), ‏غير منبه, ‏غير حريف, ‏عليل (below par, ill, queer, sick), ‏رقيق (aerial, affectionate, airy, angelic, bleeding heart, dainty, delicate, feminine, filmy, fine, flimsy, fluffy, fragile, frothy, gauzy, gentle, gingerly, gossamery, gracious, hearty, kind hearted, kindly, lovely, mellow, mincing, nice, orchidaceous, pastel, photogenic, piano, quiet, refined, romance, sharp, sloppy, smooth, soft-hearted, suave, subtle, sugary, superfine, tender, tenuous, thin, thinning, tilery, trick, warm, watery). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

мек (balmy, benign, benignant, creamy, cushiony, doughy, ductile, euphemistic, flabby, flaccid, floppy, genial, green, kindly, lambent, limp, medium, meek, mellow, melodious, melting, mild, pillowy, rich, round, silken, silver, soft, supple, tender, weak, well-padded, yielding), любезен (accommodating, affable, agreeable, amiable, complaisant, courteous, debonair, fair, fair-spoken, friendly, gentle, gracious, kind, mellow, nice, obliging, pleasant, polite, smooth, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, smooth-faced, soft spoken, urbane, well spoken), лек (airy, cool, cure, cushy, easy, expedite, facile, fairy, flimsy, gentle, gossamer, gossamery, gradual, lambent, lenient, light, lightsome, lightweight, medicine, mild, mobile, potty, quiet, remedy, skyey, slick, slight, snap, soft, subtle, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial), ироничен (derisive, derisory, dry, ironic, pawky, sly). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

平淡. (various references)

   

Czech

  

jemný (dainty, delicate, fine, gentle, graceful, gracious, light, milky, nice, silken, silky, soft, suave, subtle, superfine, sweet, tender, tenuous, thin, wispy). (various references)

   

Danish

  

sterilt infarkt (bland aseptic infarct), skånekost (bland diet, mild diet). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

poeslief (sugary). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

afekte milda (sugary). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

ملایم (Benign, Breezy, Clement, Downy, Easy, Equable, Gentle, Kindly, Lenient, Meek, Mild, Moderate, Sedate, Smooth, Soft, Suave), نجیب (Decent, Genteel, Gentle, Meek, Nice, Noble), ارام (Calm, Daft, Douce, Gentle, Hush, Imperturbable, Moderate, Pacific, Peaceable, Peaceful, Placid, Quiet, Sedate, Serene, Silent, Staid, Taciturn, Tranquil, Unblenched, Unruffled, Whist), شیرین ومطلوب , بی مزه (Flat, Hammy, Insipid, Jejune, Namby, Unsavory). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

imelä hymy (bland smile). (various references)

   

French

  

fade, doucereux. (various references)

   

German

  

verbindlich (allying, binding, combinable, compulsory, engaging, obligatory, obliging, reliable, urbane, urbanely), sanft (blandly, calm, caressing, delicate, gentle, gently, kindly, meek, meekly, mellow, mild, mildly, peaceful, placidly, quiet, silken, smooth, smoothly, soft, softly, suave, undulating), nichtssagend (blank, characterless, empty, expressionless, featureless, frivolous, inexpressive, inexpressively, insignificant, meaningless, pointless, trite, trivial, unmeaning, unmeaningly, vacant, vacuous, vapid), nüchtern (abstemious, arid, austere, bare, businesslike, demure, down to earth, dry, dull, hard-headed, insipid, jejune, jejunely, levelheaded, literal, matter of fact, mundane, no-nonsense, plain, prosaic, prosaically, rational, sober, sober minded, soberly, staid, temperate, unemotional, unemotionally), mild (balmy, benevolent, benign, clement, clemently, gentle, lenient, light, meek, mellow, mild, mildly, moderate, placid, softly), höflich (blandly, civil, civilly, complimentarily, complimentary, cordial, cordially, courteous, debonair, fairspoken, polite, politely, unrude, urbane, urbanely, well-mannered), glatt (clean, completely, cool, direct, downright, even, flat, flatly, glib, glibby, glossy, level, outright, plain, polished, really, sheer, silken, silky, sleek, slick, slickly, slippery, smooth, smoothly, suave, unruffled, waveless), fade (characterless, commonplace, dismal, dull, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, stuffy, tasteless, tastelessly, trite, unsavory, unsavoury, vapid), ausdruckslos-höflich. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μειλίχιοσ (mild), πράοσ (benign, biddable, gentle, meek, mild, placid, quiet), ήπιοσ (Clement, gentle, mild). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מר'יע (abirritant, relaxing, restful). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

udvarias (affable, civil, civil-spoken, complacent, complaisant, courteous, courtly, fair-spoken, mannerly, neighborly, neighbourly, obliging, polite, to be gracious to sy, to wrap up his censure in a polite formula, urbane, well-mannered), szelíd (benign, biddable, gentle, lenient, light, meek, milky, placid, quiet, subdued, sweet, sweet-tempered, tame), enyhe (benign, clement, easy, faint, genial, gentle, lenient, light, mild, slight, soft), nyugtató (balmy, relaxing, sedative, soothing, tranquillizer), nyájas (affable, benign, comely, complacent, complaisant, endearing, friendly, gentle, good-natured, kind, meek, placid, suave, sweet), mézesmázos (candied, honeyed, mealy mouthed, mealy-mouthed, mellifluous, silky, smarmy, treacly, wheedling), lágy (mellow, milky, silken, silky, soft, still, suave, tender), jóságos (benign, benignant, have a big heart, kindly, warm-hearted), fűszerezetlen (unseasoned), csillapító (absorber, attenuative, balmy, depressant, mitigative, palliative, soothing), baktériummal nem fertőzött, üdítő (bracing, exhilarating, fine, refreshing). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

lunak (lenient, soft). (various references)

   

Italian

  

blando (gentle, mild), mite di gusto, mite (genial, gentle, lenient, meek, mild, moderate, reasonable, temperate), mischiarsi (mingle, mix), gentile (affable, charming, civil, courteous, decent, fair, genteel, gentile, gentle, gracious, kind, kindly, likable, mild, nice, obliging, polite, tender, thoughtful), dolce (cake, dessert, fresh, gentle, Goody, honeyed, luscious, mild, pudding, smooth, soft, sweet, sweetness, tender, trifle, tuck), cortese (accommodating, affable, complaisant, courteous, friendly, good-natured, gracious, kind, mannerly, neighborly, neighbourly, obliging, polite, respectful, urbane, well-mannered). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ブラウン管 (black, Black Africa, black box, black chamber, black coffee, black comedy, black ghetto, black hole, black humor, black journalism, black magic, black market, black Monday, black money, Black Panther, black pepper, Black Power, black shaft, black tie, blackjack, blacklist, blackout, blank, blanket, blanket area, blood bank, blood elite, bra, bra cup, bracket, Brad Pitt, branch, brand, brand image, brand loyalty, brandy, brass, brass-band, brasserie, brassie, brassiere, Bratislava, bravo, Brazil, brothers, brunch, brush, brush back pitch, brushy, Brussels, cathode-ray tube). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ブランド (brand). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

온"한 (mild, temperate). (various references)

   

Manx

  

meen (darling, dear, patient, pet, quiet, sweet), meeley (delicate, fine, fine to touch, mangling, moisten, smooth, soft, soft-spoken, yielding), meein (clement, fine, gentle, Halcyon days, pet, silky, smooth, soft, tame not wild; assuage pain; small ground, tame; assuage; small ground). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

andblay

   

Portuguese

  

brando (dainty, delicate, easy, facile, fine, flag, gentle, lenient, light, lithe, meek, mellow, mild, moderate, placable, placid, reasonable, refined, slow, smooth, soft, soft spoken, suave, tender), suave (creamy, delicate, douceur, dowry, dulcify, easy, facile, genial, gentle, glib, lambkin, lamblike, lenient, meekness, mellifluous, mellow, mild, piano key, placard, pleasantly, silken, sleek, sleeky, smooth, soft, soft spoken, suave, sweet, tender), meigo (dainty, delicate, fine, gentle, mild, refined, soft, sweet, tender), malicioso (arch, catty, despiteful, devilish, evil-minded, guileful, malicious, mischievous, mordacious, nasty, parmesan, pawky, piquant, puckish, salty, tricksy, vicious, wanton), doce (bonbon, candy, comfit, confection, confectionery, dulcet, gentle, honeymoon, junket, kiss, lozenge, mellifluent, mellifluous, mild, niddle-noddle, polite, soft, sugar, sugary, sweet, tender), ameno (agreeable, enjoyable, gentle, kindness, lovely, mild, nice, pleasant, soft, suave, sweet, tender). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

blând (benign, Clement, docile, dovelike, easy-tempered, fair, genial, gentle, gently, good hearted, good natured, harmless, lenient, meek, mild, mildly, Pacific, passive, peaceable, placable, silken, soft, steady, sweet, tame, tender, tractable), binevoitor (amiable, benevolent, benignant, charitable, condescending, favorable, favourable, friendly, genial, genteel, gentle, good, good natured, gracious, humane, kind, kindly, lithe, nice, propitious, ungrudging, well disposed, well meaning, well wisher, yielding), dulce (amorously, benign, candied, charming, dear, dessert, dulcet, flattering, fresh, genial, gentle, gently, honeyed, lovable, luscious, melliferous, mellow, melodious, slack, smooth, soft, suave, sugared, sweet, sweetly, sweets, tender, winning), curtenitor (courteous, courteously, fair, fair-spoken), amabil (affable, agreeable, amiable, amiably, considerate, courteous, decent, endearing, fair, favorable, favourable, genial, good natured, good tempered, gracious, kind, kindly, lovable, obliging, obligingly, polite, politely, sweet-tempered), afabil (affable, affably, amiable, blandly, mellow). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вкрадчивый (silky, sleeky, smarmy, smooth tongued, smooth-faced, soapy), вежливый (affable, attentive, courteous, courtly, fair-spoken, mannerly, parliamentary, polite, respectful, urbane), мягкий (balmy, cottony, cushiony, downy, facile, fair-spoken, genial, gentle, green, lenient, limp, meek, mellow, mild, mild-mannered, mushy, non-rigid, open, pillowy, pulpy, rich, round, silken, soft, squashy, squidgy, yielding). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

blag (benign, clement, genial, gentle, lenient, light, meek, mellow, melting, mild, permissive, placable, tender, unctuous), učtiv (affable, civilized, courteous, polite, respectful, urbane, well mannered, well spoken, well-behaved). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

templado (anneal, keyed, mild, subdued, temperate, tempered, tempering, tune, warm), poco fuerte, amable (affable, agreeable, amiable, charming, comradely, dainty, darling, decent, friendly, gentile, gentle, good, good-natured, helpful, kind, levely, likeable, lovable, neighborly, neighbourly, nice, pleasant, pretty, sympathetic, thankful). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förbindlig (affable, courteous, obliging, suave), blid (advantageous, favourable, gentle, mild, placid, sentle, soft). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yumuşak (benignant, ductile, easygoing, effeminate, flabby, flaccid, floppy, gentle, heartthrob, kid glove, kindly, lax, lenient, light, limp, malleable, mellow, mild, pulpy, smooth, soft, soft boiled, spongy, supple, tender, velvet, yielding), mülayim (dovelike, pliable, sweet-natured, sweet-tempered, tender), kibar (aristocratic, aristocratical, attentive, blancmange, chivalrous, civil, civilized, courteous, courtly, distingue, Douce, elegant, exquisite, fashionable, gallant, genteel, gentle, kid glove, mild, nice, parliamentary, polished, polite, refined, sharp, urbane, well born, well disposed, well mannered). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

улесливий (adulatory, candied, fawning, honeyed, obsequious, oily, silky, sleeky, suave, wheedling), ввічливий (affable, civil, complaisant, conventional, courteous, courtly, debonair, diplomatic, discreet, mannerly, polite, respectful, suave, urbane). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thơm dịu, có cử chỉ dịu d ng. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

tyner (gentle, tender), tirion (benign, gentle, gracious, kind, tender), mwyn (benign, dear, gentle, kind, mild, mineral, ore, sake). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Bland

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

blandus. (various references)

Italian900-Modern

blando. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bland

Derivations

Words beginning with "bland": blander, blandest, blandish, blandished, blandisher, blandishers, blandishes, blandishing, blandishment, blandishments, blandly, blandness, blandnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "bland": scabland, scrubland. (additional references)

Words containing "bland": scablands, scrublands. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Bland" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baland, balande, balland, balnd, bandh, beand, Beland, belind, Biland, Billund, blaand, blad, blam, blan, blanda, Blando, blandy, blang, blanh, blani, blans, blant, blard, blarn, blasnd, blenda, bleng, bleni, Blidn, blinb, blindr, blindy, blinn, blinq, blondy, blynd, Buland, Bulyanda, fland, iland. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Bland"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "bland" (pronounced bla"nd)
4-l a" n dgland, land, meadowland, planned, unplanned.
3-a" n dand, band, banned, brand, canned, command, demand, disband, expand, fanned, firsthand, grand, hand, manned, misunderstand, offhand, outmanned, panned, rand, remand, sand, scanned, spanned, stand, strand, tanned, understand, unmanned, withstand.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Bland

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-l-n"

-1 letter: bald, band, land.

-2 letters: alb, and, bad, bal, ban, dab, dal, lab, lad, nab.

-3 letters: ab, ad, al, an, ba, la, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-l-n"
 

+2 letters: badland, balding, blander, blandly, blanked, enabled.

 

+3 letters: backland, badlands, balanced, baldness, banderol, bendable, bidental, bilander, bindable, blanched, blandest, blandish, blazoned, blindage, blinkard, bondable, bushland, clubhand, dabbling, damnable, damnably, deniable, deniably, fahlband, findable, handball, handbell, handbill, labdanum, landgrab, lendable, mandible, mendable, scabland, sendable, subnodal, unblamed, undoable, vendable, windable.

 

+4 letters: abdominal, abidingly, abuilding, amendable, backlands, balconied, baldachin, ballooned, banalized, banderole, banderols, bandoleer, bandolier, barnacled, beladying, belauding, bellyband, benchland, bilanders, blackened, blackland, blandness, blanketed, blarneyed, blindages, blinkards, breadline, brushland, bushlands, clubhands, dabblings, danceable, definable, definably, detonable, disabling, drabbling, drinkable, emendable, endurable, endurably, fahlbands, handballs, handbells, handbills, handblown, handlebar, hobnailed, husbandly, inaudible, inaudibly, kneadable, labdanums, landgrabs, libidinal, mandibles, multiband, prebendal, sandblast, scablands, scrubland, soundable, spendable, tableland, unlabeled, unridable, vendables, windblast.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bland


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 6C 61 6E 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-..    .-    -.    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#97 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 0061 006E 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3678678070

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Sounds
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Usage Frequency
12. Names: Frequency
13. Cities
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern
17. Translations: Ancient
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Orthography
22. Bibliography


  

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