| adjective | lacking taste or flavor or tang “a bland diet” |
| adjective | lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting “a bland little drama” |
| adjective | smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication “he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage” |
| blandness | noun | lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property |
| flatness | noun | a deficiency in flavor |
| flavorlessness | noun | the property of having no flavor |
| flavourlessness | noun | the property of having no flavor |
| insipidness | noun | lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property |
| insipidity | noun | lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property |
| savorlessness | noun | the property of having no flavor |
| savourlessness | noun | the property of having no flavor |
| smoothness | noun | the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner |
| suaveness | noun | the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner |
| suavity | noun | the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner |