bland
1. lacking taste or flavor or tang (Freq. 1)
- a bland diet
- insipid hospital food
- flavorless supermarket tomatoes
- vapid beer
- vapid tea
• Syn:
flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless,
savourless, vapid
• Similar to:
tasteless
• Derivationally related forms:
savourlessness (for: savourless), savorlessness (for: savorless), insipidness (for: insipid), insipidity (for: insipid), flavourlessness (for: flavourless), flavorlessness (for: flavorless), flatness (for: flat), blandness
2. lacking stimulating characteristics;
uninteresting
- a bland little drama
- a flat joke
• Syn:
flat
• Similar to:
unstimulating, unexciting
• Derivationally related forms:
flatness (for: flat)
3. smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
- he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage
- the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error
• Syn:
politic, smooth, suave
• Similar to:
diplomatic, diplomatical
• Derivationally related forms:
blandness, suaveness (for: suave), suavity (for: suave), smoothness (for: smooth)
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