English adjective: bland | |||
1. | bland lacking taste or flavor or tang | ||
Samples | A bland diet. Insipid hospital food. Flavorless supermarket tomatoes. Vapid beer. Vapid tea. | ||
Synonyms | flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid | ||
Similar | tasteless | ||
Antonyms | tasty | ||
2. | bland lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting | ||
Samples | A bland little drama. A flat joke. | ||
Synonyms | flat | ||
Similar | unexciting, unstimulating | ||
Antonyms | stimulating | ||
3. | bland smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication | ||
Samples | He was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage. The manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error. | ||
Synonyms | politic, smooth, suave | ||
Similar | diplomatic, diplomatical | ||
Antonyms | undiplomatic | ||