parve

Adjective

pareve (not comparable)

1. (Jewish) Of food: that has no meat or milk in any form as an ingredient.
   • My mom made a pareve casserole with soy hot dogs.
2. (broadly, figuratively) Neutral, bland, inoffensive.
   • Judaism in Cranford [New Jersey] was pareve, neither milk nor meat; it had no edge to it. I didn't see this for my life. I was idealistic. I wanted to deal with issues of faith and morality, and all they were worried about were their High Holiday seats. But then I found out I really liked the...1994, Paul Wilkes, quoting Jay Rosenbaum, And They Shall Be My People: An American Rabbi and His Congregation, New York, N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN