Meaning of INSIPID
| Pronunciation: | | in'sipid
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- [adj] not pleasing to the sense of taste
- [adj] lacking interest or significance; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel"
- [adj] lacking significance or impact; "an insipid novel"
- [adj] lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"
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| | Synonyms: | | bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, harmless, innocuous, jejune, savorless, savourless, tasteless, unappetising, unappetizing, uninteresting, vapid |
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| | Definition: | | \In*sip"id\, a. [L. insipidus; pref. in- not + sapidus
savory, fr. sapere to taste: cf. F. insipide. See {Savor}.]
1. Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste;
without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid
drink or food. --Boyle.
2. Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting;
weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an
insipid composition.
Flat, insipid, and ridiculous stuff to him. --South.
But his wit is faint, and his salt, if I may dare to
say so, almost insipid. --Dryden.
Syn: Tasteless; vapid; dull; spiritless; unanimated;
lifeless; flat; stale; pointless; uninteresting.
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| | Related Terms: | | arid, banal, bare, barren, betwixt and between, blah, bland, blank, bleached, bloodless, bromidic, changeable, characterless, clear, cold, colorless, common, commonplace, dead, devoid, dilute, diluted, dismal, distasteful, draggy, drearisome, dreary, driveling, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, fade, fair, fair to middling, fairish, featureless, feeble, flat, flavorless, gruelly, halfhearted, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, ill-flavored, inane, indecisive, indifferent, inexcitable, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, innocuous, irresolute, jejune, lackluster, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, matter-of-fact, mediocre, medium, middling, mild, milk-and-water, milky, moderate, modest, mundane, mushy, namby-pamby, neutral, null, null and void, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, ordinary, pale, pallid, pappy, passable, pedestrian, plain, plodding, poetryless, pointless, poky, ponderous, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pulpy, respectable, sapless, savorless, slight, slow, soft, solemn, so-so, spiceless, spiritless, stale, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, subdued, superficial, swashy, tame, tasteless, tedious, tenuous, thin, tiresome, tolerable, unappetizing, unembellished, unflavored, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninteresting, unlively, unpoetic, unrelieved, unromantic, unsavory, vacant, vacuous, vapid, void, washy, watered, watered-down, waterish, watery, weak, weariful, wearisome, white, wishy-washy, with nothing inside, without content, wooden |
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