Bland \Bland\, a. [L. blandus, of unknown origin.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. Mild; soft; gentle; smooth and soothing in manner; suave;
      as, a bland temper; bland persuasion; a bland sycophant.
      "Exhilarating vapor bland." --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Having soft and soothing qualities; not drastic or
      irritating; not stimulating; as, a bland oil; a bland
      diet.
      [1913 Webster]

	

	bland
    adj 1: lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid
           hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid
           beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: bland, flat, flavorless,
           flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless,
           vapid]
    2: lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland
       little drama"; "a flat joke" [syn: bland, flat]
    3: 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" [syn: politic,
       smooth, suave, bland]

	

	128 Moby Thesaurus words for "bland":
   abstract, adulatory, balmy, banal, bare, barren, blah, blandishing,
   blank, blarneying, bleached, boring, broad, buttery, cajoling,
   calm, changeable, characterless, civilized, clear, collective,
   complimentary, composed, cool, courtierly, courtly, devoid,
   disarming, dull, empty, faint, fair-spoken, fawning, featureless,
   fine-spoken, flat, flattering, fulsome, general, generalized,
   generic, gentle, glib, good-natured, gushing, halfhearted, hollow,
   honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, inane, indecisive,
   indefinite, indeterminate, infirm of purpose, infirm of will,
   ingratiating, insincere, insinuating, insipid, insouciant,
   irresolute, judicious, lenient, mealymouthed, mild, mild as milk,
   milk-and-water, milky, moderate, mushy, namby-pamby, nebulous,
   neutral, nonchalant, nonspecific, nonviolent, null, null and void,
   obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, pacifistic, peaceable, peaceful,
   prudent, sapless, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken,
   smooth-tongued, smug, soapy, sober, soft, soft-soaping,
   soft-spoken, soothing, suave, suave-spoken, sycophantic, tame,
   tasteless, temperate, uncharacterized, unctuous, undifferentiated,
   unemotional, uninteresting, unrelieved, unruffled, unspecified,
   urbane, vacant, vacuous, vague, vapid, void, waterish, watery,
   wheedling, white, wide, wishy-washy, with nothing inside,
   without content

	

	Bland -- U.S. County in Virginia
   Population (2000):    6871
   Housing Units (2000): 3161
   Land area (2000):     358.668496 sq. miles (928.947101 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.063072 sq. miles (0.163357 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    358.731568 sq. miles (929.110458 sq. km)
   Located within:       Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
   Location:             37.132329 N, 81.126500 W
   Headwords:
    Bland
    Bland, VA
    Bland County
    Bland County, VA

	

	Bland, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
   Population (2000):    565
   Housing Units (2000): 299
   Land area (2000):     0.641615 sq. miles (1.661774 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.641615 sq. miles (1.661774 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            06256
   Located within:       Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
   Location:             38.302510 N, 91.634232 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     65014
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Bland, MO
    Bland