different between bland vs delicious

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blænd/
• Rhymes: -ænd

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin blandus (“pleasant, flattering”).

Adjective

bland (comparative blander, superlative blandest)

1. Having a soothing effect; not irritating or stimulating.

2. Lacking in taste, flavor, or vigor.
   • 2012, John Shepherd, David Horn, Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World

     First and foremost, alternative country artists generally claim to reject mainstream country music as musically indistinguishable from bland pop music, as lyrically superficial, and as having no artistic merit […]

3. (figuratively) Lacking interest; boring; dull.
4. (now rare) Mild; soft, gentle, balmy; smooth in manner; suave.
   • 1818, John Keats, Sonnet:

     Where didst thou find, young Bard, thy sounding lyre? / Where the bland accent, and the tender tone?

Derived terms

• blanden
• blandness

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English blanden, blonden, from Old English blandan (“to blend, mix, mingle; trouble, disturb, corrupt”), from Proto-Germanic *blandan? (“to mix, blend”). Cognate with Icelandic blanda, Norwegian, Danish blande, Swedish blanda. See also blend.

Verb

bland (third-person singular simple present blands, present participle blanding, simple past and past participle blanded)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To mix; blend; mingle.
2. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To connect; associate.

Etymology 3

From Middle English bland, from Old English bland, blond (“blending, mixture, confusion”), from Proto-Germanic *bland? (“a mixing, mixture”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?lend?- (“to grow turbid, dim, see badly, be blind”). Cognate with Icelandic blanda (“a mixture of liquids, especially of hot whey and water”).

Alternative forms

• blaind, blaund (Scotland)

Noun

bland (plural blands)

1. (Britain dialectal) Mixture; union.
2. A summer beverage prepared from the whey of churned milk, common among the inhabitants of the Shetland Islands.

Derived terms

• in bland

References

• bland in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Danish

Verb

bland

1. imperative of blande

German

Etymology

From Latin blandus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

bland (not comparable)

1. (medicine) bland

Declension

Further reading

• “bland” in Duden online

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plant/
• Rhymes: -ant

Noun

bland n (genitive singular blands, no plural)

1. mix

Declension

Derived terms

• bland í poka

Related terms

• blanda

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

bland

1. imperative of blande

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

bland

1. imperative of blande

Swedish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Preposition

bland

1. among

English

Etymology

From Middle English delicious, from Anglo-Norman delicious, from Old French delicious, delicieux, from Late Latin d?lici?sus (“delicate, delicious”), from d?liciae (“delights”), plural of d?licia (“pleasure”), from delici? (“I allure, I entice”), from de- (“away”) + laci? (“I lure, I deceive”). Displaced native Middle English este (“delicious, favorable”) (from Old English ?ste (“delicious, dainty, luxurious, delicate”)), Middle English wunli, wunlic (“delicious, joyous”) (from Old English wynl?? (“pleasant, beautiful, joyful”)), Old English ?stel?c (“delicious, delicate, dainty”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??l???s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??l???s/, /di?l???s/

• Rhymes: -???s

Adjective

delicious (comparative more delicious, superlative most delicious)

1. Pleasing to taste; tasty.
2. (colloquial) Metaphorically pleasing to taste; pleasing to the eyes or mind.

   The irony is delicious!

   • 1986, Patrick Lichfield, Courvoisier's Book of the Best (page 230)

     But the houses are so delicious and the way they're townscaped on to hilly bits is absolutely wonderful.

   • Jones had not travelled far before he paid his compliments to that beautiful planet, and, turning to his companion, asked him if he had ever beheld so delicious an evening?

3. (slang) Having tremendous sex appeal.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:delicious

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• leucosiid, lousicide

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin d?lici?sus, see above.

Adjective

delicious m (oblique and nominative feminine singular deliciouse)

1. delicious; tasty
2. noble; courtly; courteous

Declension

Descendants

• English: delicious
• French: délicieux