What is the meaning of bland?

Lacking taste or flavor or tang.
- usage: "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"
- synonyms: flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid
Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting.
- usage: "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke"
- synonyms: flat
Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication.
- usage: "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"; "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"
- synonyms: politic, smooth, suave

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