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The synonyms of “Bland” are: flat, politic, smooth, suave, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid, uninteresting, dull, boring, tedious, monotonous, dry, drab, dreary, wearisome, tasteless, mild, unflavoured, weak, thin, watery, unappetizing, temperate, soft, calm, balmy, soothing, benign
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “bland” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| balmy | Characterized by pleasantly warm weather. It used to drive my husband balmy. |
| benign | Pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence. The benign sky. |
| boring | Not interesting; tedious. I ve got a boring job in an office. |
| calm | Not agitated; without losing self-possession. The city was reported to be calm but army patrols remained. |
| drab | Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise. Her drab personality. |
| dreary | Causing dejection. A series of dreary dinner parties. |
| dry | Of noodles not served in a soup but in a sauce or with dry ingredients. Dry clothes. |
| dull | Being or made softer or less loud or clear. Dull greens and blues. |
| flat | Flattened laterally along the whole length e g certain leafstalks or flatfishes. Found himself lying flat on the floor. |
| flavorless | Lacking taste or flavor or tang. Flavorless supermarket tomatoes. |
| flavourless | (of food or drink) lacking flavour; bland or tasteless. He delivers his flavourless dialogue in a listless deadpan. |
| insipid | Lacking taste or flavor or tang. Mugs of insipid coffee. |
| mild | Humble in spirit or manner suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness. Mild winters. |
| monotonous | Dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest. The statistics that he quotes with monotonous regularity. |
| politic | (of a person) prudent and sagacious. It is neither polite nor politic to get into other people s quarrels. |
| savorless | Lacking taste or flavor or tang. |
| savourless | Lacking taste or flavor or tang. |
| smooth | Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication. A smooth channel crossing. |
| soft | Soft and mild not harsh or stern or severe. Soft hands. |
| soothing | Freeing from fear and anxiety. She put on some soothing music. |
| suave | Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication. All the waiters were suave and deferential. |
| tasteless | Lacking flavour. A tasteless joke. |
| tedious | Using or containing too many words. Tedious days on the train. |
| temperate | (of weather or climate) free from extremes; mild; or characteristic of such weather or climate. Charles was temperate in his consumption of both food and drink. |
| thin | Relatively thin in consistency or low in density not viscous. His hair was going thin. |
| unappetizing | Not appetizing in appearance, aroma, or taste. One of the unappetizing features of politics. |
| unflavoured | Without flavoring added. Unflavoured yogurt. |
| uninteresting | Arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement. A very uninteresting account of her trip. |
| vapid | Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging; bland. Tuneful but vapid musical comedies. |
| watery | Relating to or resembling or consisting of water. Watery coffee. |
| weak | Relating to or denoting the weakest of the known kinds of force between particles which acts only at distances less than about 10 cm is very much weaker than the electromagnetic and the strong interactions and conserves neither strangeness parity nor isospin. A weak market for oil stocks. |
| wearisome | So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness. Other people s dreams are dreadfully wearisome. |
| banal | So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring. Songs with banal repeated words. |
| banality | The fact or condition of being banal; unoriginality. There is an essential banality to the story he tells. |
| boring | So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness. I ve got a boring job in an office. |
| bromide | A reproduction or piece of typesetting on bromide paper. Feel good bromides create the illusion of problem solving. |
| cliche | A trite or obvious remark. |
| commonplace | A notable passage in a work copied into a commonplace book. Air travel has now become commonplace. |
| conventional | Based on or in accordance with what is generally done or believed. Conventional wisdom. |
| drab | Clothes especially trousers made of drab. Her drab personality. |
| dull | Become dull or lusterless in appearance lose shine or brightness. A dull glow. |
| edible | Any substance that can be used as food. Nasturtium seeds are edible. |
| featureless | Lacking distinctive attributes or aspects. The featureless landscape of the steppe. |
| hackneyed | (of a phrase or idea) having been overused; unoriginal and trite. Hackneyed phrases. |
| insipid | Lacking flavour; weak or tasteless. Mugs of insipid coffee. |
| lackluster | Lacking brilliance or vitality. Staring with lackluster eyes. |
| median | Denoting the middle term or mean of the middle two terms of a series arranged in order of magnitude For example the median number of the series 55 62 76 85 93 is 76. The median duration of this treatment was four months. |
| mediocre | Of only average quality; not very good. They improved the quality from mediocre to above average. |
| mediocrity | Ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding. The team suddenly came good after years of mediocrity. |
| monotony | The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety. You can become resigned to the monotony of captivity. |
| nondescript | A nondescript person or thing. A nondescript novel. |
| normal | Conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm not abnormal. Of normal intelligence. |
| ordinary | A clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death. He sets out to depict ordinary people. |
| platitude | A trite or obvious remark. She began uttering liberal platitudes. |
| ponderous | Slow and clumsy because of great weight. A ponderous burden. |
| simplistic | Treating complex issues and problems as if they were much simpler than they really are. Simplistic arguments of the ruling party. |
| stereotyped | Lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality. Stereotyped phrases of condolence. |
| trite | (of a remark or idea) lacking originality or freshness; dull on account of overuse. This point may now seem obvious and trite. |
| uninteresting | Characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative. A very uninteresting account of her trip. |
| unremarkable | Not particularly interesting or surprising. An unremarkable house. |
| usual | The thing which is typically done or present. The usual greeting. |
| vapid | Lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest. A vapid smile. |
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