bland
adjective
1. lacking taste or flavor or tang
- a bland diet
Similar word(s): tasteless, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid
2. lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
- a bland little drama
Similar word(s): unexciting, unstimulating, flat
3. smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
Similar word(s): diplomatic, diplomatical, politic, smooth, suave
Sentences with bland as an adjective:
- a bland oil; a bland diet
- The coffee was bland. The judge found the defense's case to be bland.
noun
1. (Britain dialectal) Mixture; union.
2. A summer beverage prepared from the whey of churned milk, common among the inhabitants of the Shetland Islands.
verb
1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To mix; blend; mingle.
2. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To connect; associate.