blandly

1. 1.

   in a bland manner

   “his blandly incompetent attempts”

Questions about blandly

What does blandly mean?

blandly means "in a bland manner".

How many syllables are in blandly?

blandly has 2 syllables: bland-ly. The stress falls on "bland". In IPA it is /ˈblændli/.

Is blandly a common word?

blandly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.