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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 | ||
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