vanillafied

English

Etymology

From vanilla +‎ -fy +‎ -ed.

Adjective

vanillafied (comparative more vanillafied, superlative most vanillafied)

1. (informal) Generic, safe, or anodyne.
   • 1996 September 19, Amy Biancolli, “Hollywood Humour Runs The Gamut In 'First Wives'”, in Albany Times Union:

     Well, look no further. "The First Wives Club," which opens Friday, is the latest and arguably the slickest chick flick to reduce its adult male characters to inconsequential quivery-lipped milksops. It's not so much male-bashing as all-out male-demolition, a happy-faced Hollywood excuse to trot out one vanillafied stereotype after another. Men are stupid! Men are venal! Men are libidinous reptiles!

   • 2007, Esther Iverem, We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies, 1986-2006, Thunder's Mouth Press, →ISBN, page 243:

     Just when you're ready to dismiss the main character, Theodorous Melville, as simply another hopelessly vanillafied brother, debut writer and director Kwyn Bader ups the comedic ante.

   • 2008 October 8, Darren Ewing, “Review: Nikka Costa funkifies sparse crowd in SLC”, in The Salt Lake City Tribune:

     Costa may just be the fresh blast of honest-to-goodness, not-playing-games, old-school-meets-new-school, funky, fuzzy-haired soul that this vanillafied, predigested, pop-tart-obsessed media culture has been looking for.

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Verb

vanillafied

1. simple past and past participle of vanillafy