bland meaning and definition

BLAND adjective

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 manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"
   • synonyms: politic, smooth, suave