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[ adjective ] lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics

Examples

"a bland pudding" "a bland diet for her irritated stomach"

Related terms

pungent

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[ adjective ] lacking taste or flavor or tang

Examples

"a bland diet" "insipid hospital food" "flavorless supermarket tomatoes" "vapid beer" "vapid tea"

Used in print

(Organic Gardening and Farming,...)

The flavor is neither sweet , like a pear , nor tart like an orange ; it is subtle and rather bland , nut like .

Related terms

tasteless

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[ adjective ] lacking taste or flavor or tang

Examples

"a bland diet" "insipid hospital food" "flavorless supermarket tomatoes" "vapid beer" "vapid tea"

Related terms

tasteless

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1028
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[ adjective ] lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting

Synonyms

flat

Examples

"a bland little drama" "a flat joke"

Related terms

unstimulating

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