Bland (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea".
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Examples
- The chef's soup was surprisingly bland after all the work he put into making it.
- She was disappointed with the flavorless meal at the new restaurant in town.
- The hospital food was notoriously bland and unappetizing to most patients.
- The bland crackers didn't have enough flavor to complement the rich cheese.
- At the supermarket, the tomatoes tasted so bland that they might as well be cardboard.
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Meaning 2
Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke".
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Meaning 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".
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All adjective clusters.