Anodyne

I am going to start a new feature here at Bob's Blog. Each time I learn a new word, I am going to write about it. Today I was reading Betsy's Page, which is one of the blogs I try to read every day. Betsy Newmark was saying that Marco Rubio is "the anti-Hillary."

He's young, historic, and isn't wealthy. But the biggest contrast is that he's been willing to put forth policy proposals instead of anodyne platitudes.

When used as an adjective, anodyne, according to Google, means

not likely to provoke dissent or offense; inoffensive, often deliberately so.