adj.
  - lacking strong features or characteristics and therefore uninteresting. 
▸(of food or drink) lacking flavour or seasoning; insipid.
 - showing no strong emotion.
 
 
  Derivative
  
    - blandly adv.
  - blandness n.
 
   
  Etymology
  ME (in the sense ‘gentle in manner’): from L. blandus ‘soft, smooth’.