Bland vs Tedious - What's the difference?
bland | tedious | Synonyms |
Mixture; union.
An agreeable summer beverage prepared from the whey of churned milk, common among the inhabitants of the Shetland Islands.
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?
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland , invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
Having a soothing effect; not irritating or stimulating.
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Lacking in taste, flavor, or vigor.
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Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
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Bland is a synonym of tedious.
As a proper noun bland
is .As an adjective tedious is
boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.bland
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) blanden, blonden, from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) bland, from (etyl) bland, .Alternative forms
* (Scotland)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
*Etymology 3
Ultimately from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)References
* ----tedious
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=A work is objectively tedious' when it contains the defect in question; that is to say, when its author has no perfectly clear thought or knowledge to communicate. For if a man has any clear thought or knowledge in him, his aim will be to communicate it, and he will direct his energies to this end; so that the ideas he furnishes are everywhere clearly expressed. The result is that he is neither diffuse, nor unmeaning, nor confused, and consequently not ' tedious .}}
citation, passage=The other kind of tediousness is only relative: a reader may find a work dull because he has no interest in the question treated of in it, and this means that his intellect is restricted. The best work may, therefore, be tedious' subjectively, ' tedious .}}