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Adjective: bland (blander,blandest)  bland
  1. Lacking taste, flavour or tang
    "a bland diet";
    - flat, flavorless [US], flavourless [Brit, Cdn], insipid, savorless [US], savourless [Brit, Cdn], vapid
     
  2. Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
    "a bland little drama";
    - flat
     
  3. Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
    "His bland manner concealed his true feelings";
    - politic, smooth, suave

Derived forms: blander, blandest

See also: diplomatic, diplomatical, tasteless, unexciting, unstimulating

Encyclopedia: Bland, Oscar Edward