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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bland/bland/
▶adjective
  • 1 lacking strong features or characteristics and therefore uninteresting.

    ■ (of food or drink) lacking flavour or seasoning; insipid.

  • 2 showing no strong emotion.
– derivatives
blandly adverb,
blandness noun.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘gentle in manner’): from L. blandus ‘soft, smooth’.



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