BLENDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blended mean? 

• BLENDED (adjective)
  The adjective BLENDED has 1 sense:

1. combined or mixed together so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable

  Familiarity information: BLENDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLENDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Combined or mixed together so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable

Similar:

alloyed ((used of metals) blended to obtain a desired property)

homogenised; homogenized (formed by blending unlike elements especially by reducing one element to particles and dispersing them throughout another substance)

Antonym:

unblended (not blended or mixed together)

 Context examples 

How could I, when, blended with it all, was her dear self, the better angel of my life?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Despite this genetic mixing, the distinct appearance and behaviours of the two species remain intact, and have not become blended.

(Butterflies are genetically wired to choose a mate that looks just like them, University of Cambridge)

It contains two galaxies that are merging, creating a partially blended mix of stars from each galaxy in the process.

(Chandra Samples Galactic Goulash, NASA)

Both men were a little winded, and their quick, high breathing, with the light patter of their feet as they danced round each other, blended into one continuous, long-drawn sound.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was tired of care and confinement, longed for change, and thoughts of her father blended temptingly with the novel charms of camps and hospitals, liberty and fun.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They are blended, said he, I acknowledge; and, were she prosperous, I could allow much for the occasional prevalence of the ridiculous over the good.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He took no heed of any of us, but his eyes were fixed upon Holmes’s face with an expression in which hatred and amazement were equally blended.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Everything was a friend, or bore her thoughts to a friend; and though there had been sometimes much of suffering to her; though her motives had often been misunderstood, her feelings disregarded, and her comprehension undervalued; though she had known the pains of tyranny, of ridicule, and neglect, yet almost every recurrence of either had led to something consolatory: her aunt Bertram had spoken for her, or Miss Lee had been encouraging, or, what was yet more frequent or more dear, Edmund had been her champion and her friend: he had supported her cause or explained her meaning, he had told her not to cry, or had given her some proof of affection which made her tears delightful; and the whole was now so blended together, so harmonised by distance, that every former affliction had its charm.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

When he looked back now from his vantage-ground, the old world he had known, the world of land and sea and ships, of sailor-men and harpy-women, seemed a very small world; and yet it blended in with this new world and expanded.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And then, under this high-pitched, ringing sound there was another, more intermittent, a low, deep-chested laugh, a growling, throaty gurgle of merriment which formed a grotesque accompaniment to the shriek with which it was blended.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)