“bland”

Definitions

• adjective

  lacking taste or flavor or tang

  Synonyms: flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid, abstract, adulatory, balmy, banal, bare

  • Example:“a bland diet”
  • Example:“insipid hospital food”

• adjective

  lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting

  Synonyms: flat

  • Example:“a bland little drama”
  • Example:“a flat joke”

• adjective

  smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication

  Synonyms: politic, smooth, suave

  • Example:“He was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage.”
  • Example:“The manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error.”