insipid

3 definitions found

insipid - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Insipid \In*sip"id\, a. [L. insipidus; pref. in- not + sapidus
     savory, fr. sapere to taste: cf. F. insipide. See Savor.]
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     1. Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste;
        without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid
        drink or food. --Boyle.
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     2. Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting;
        weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an
        insipid composition.
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              Flat, insipid, and ridiculous stuff to him. --South.
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              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.
          Insipidity

insipid - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  insipid
      adj 1: lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid
             hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid
             beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: bland, flat, flavorless,
             flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless,
             vapid]
      2: lacking interest or significance or impact; "an insipid
         personality"; "jejune novel" [syn: insipid, jejune]

insipid - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  152 Moby Thesaurus words for "insipid":
     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, so-so, soft,
     solemn, 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