Definition of 'bland'

Adjective

1. lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"
      Synonyms: flat flavorless flavourless insipid savorless savourless vapid
2. lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke"
      Synonyms: flat
3. smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"; "the hostess averted a confrontation between two guests with a diplomatic change of subject"; "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"; "affable, suave, moderate men...smugly convinced of their respectability" - Ezra Pound
      Synonyms: politic smooth suave

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