lacking taste or flavor or tang; a bland diet; insipid hospital food; flavorless supermarket tomatoes; vapid beer; vapid tea

[ Syn: flat , flavorless , flavourless , insipid , savorless , savourless , vapid ]

lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; a bland little drama; a flat joke

[ Syn: flat ]

smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage; the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error

[ Syn: politic , smooth , suave ]