Definitions for: Insipid


[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"



Webster (1913) 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.

Synonyms: bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, harmless, innocuous, jejune, savorless, savourless, tasteless, unappetising, unappetizing, uninteresting, vapid

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