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Definition: Blandly |
BlandlyAdverb1. In a bland manner; "his blandly incompetent attempts". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blandly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
Crosswords: Blandly |
| Specialty definitions using "blandly": kremvax. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Cranly gazed after him blandly and vaguely |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Blandly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 98.08% of the time. "Blandly" is used about 104 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 98.08% | 102 | 32,309 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.92% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 104 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "blandly": blandly-flavoured. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blandly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | متملق (coaxing, courtly, fawning, ingratiating, insinuating, oily, oleaginous, slimy, smooth, soapy, unctuous, wheedling), مداهن (oily, unctuous). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вежливо. (various references) | |
Chinese | 平淡地. (various references) | |
Czech | mdle. (various references) | |
French | avec affabilité, affablement. (various references) | |
German | sanft (bland, calm, caressing, delicate, gentle, gently, kindly, meek, meekly, mellow, mild, mildly, peaceful, placidly, quiet, silken, smooth, smoothly, soft, softly, suave, undulating). (various references) | |
Greek | μαλακά (gently), τρυφερά. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szelíden (gently, meekly, mildly, placidly). (various references) | |
Korean | 온"하게 (mildly, temperately). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andlyblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | maliciosamente (archly, maliciously), com suavidade. (various references) | |
Romanian | prietenos (amicable, cheerful, clubby, companionable, cordial, friendly, kind, kindly, Matey, mellow, mild, mildly, nice, pally, sweet), afabil (affable, affably, amiable, bland, mellow). (various references) | |
Russian | вежливо (civilly, obligingly, politely, urbanely). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | blago (gold, mildly, pelf, quietly, smoothly, treasure), učtivo (civilly, mannerly, obligingly, politely, well spoken). (various references) | |
Spanish | suavemente (gently, mildly, softly). (various references) | |
Swedish | blidligt. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ввічливо (affably, civilly, correctly, obligingly, politely, respectfully), ласкаво (decently). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Blandly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bilinelli, blandy, Bleadney, blindy, blondy, Llandeloy, Llandsyl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blandly" (pronounced bla"ndlē) |
| 5 | -a" n d l ē | grandly. |
| 4 | -n d l ē | blindly, kindly, fondly, friendly, profoundly, roundly, secondly, soundly, unfriendly. |
| 3 | -d l ē | absurdly, acidly, admittedly, advisedly, allegedly, assertedly, assuredly, avidly, avowedly, awkwardly, badly, baldly, belatedly, boldly, broadly, candidly, coldly, contentedly, cowardly, crudely, cuddly, dastardly, deadly, decidedly, deservedly, determinedly, Diddley, doggedly, downwardly, evenhandedly, excitedly, gladly, godly, goodly, guardedly, haphazardly, hardly, heatedly, hurriedly, idly, inwardly, loudly, madly, markedly, medley, mildly, oddly, otherworldly, outwardly, placidly, pointedly, proudly, purportedly, rapidly, repeatedly, reportedly, reputedly, Ridley, rigidly, rudely, ruggedly, sadly, shrewdly, solidly, splendidly, straightforwardly, stupidly, supposedly, thirdly, timidly, unabashedly, unashamedly, undoubtedly, unexpectedly, ungodly, unprecedentedly, upwardly, validly, vividly, weirdly, wholeheartedly, wickedly, widely, wildly, worldly, wretchedly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-l-l-n-y" | |
-1 letter: baldly. | |
-2 letters: badly, baldy, bally, bandy, bland, dally. | |
-3 letters: ably, ally, bald, ball, band, lady, land, yald. | |
-4 letters: aby, alb, all, and, any, bad, bal, ban, bay, dab, dal, day, lab, lad, lay, nab, nay. | |
-5 letters: ab, ad, al, an, ay, ba, by, la, na, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-l-l-n-y" | |
+2 letters: bellyband. | |
+3 letters: bellybands. | |
+4 letters: abdominally, libidinally. | |
+5 letters: alloantibody, landlubberly. | |
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