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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
   "he was too bland to quarrel with so important a personage";
   - politic, smooth, suave

Derived forms: blandest, blander

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

Encyclopedia: Bland, VA