insipid
without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality.
without sufficient taste to be pleasing, as food or drink; bland: a rather insipid soup.
Origin of insipid
1Other words for insipid
Other words from insipid
- in·si·pid·i·ty, in·sip·id·ness, noun
- in·sip·id·ly, adverb
Words that may be confused with insipid
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How to use insipid in a sentence
Turning 16 caused our parents to break out in a rash of vehicular insipidity.
P.J. O’Rourke on Grabbing the Keys to Happiness | P. J. O’Rourke | January 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLeucippe herself goes far to make amends for the general insipidity of the other characters.
Mrs. Tom was very golden-haired and blue-eyed and pink and white, but none was further removed from insipidity than she.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonThere could be nothing for him now till the insipidity of life should gradually fade away into the grave.
The Prime Minister | Anthony TrollopeThe insipidity which affronted Boz has no effect in stopping the demand for "the fireside plate."
George Cruikshank | W. H. Chesson
Grace soon passed into insipidity, and the dramatic energy of Michael Angelo into exaggerated violence.
British Dictionary definitions for insipid
/ (ɪnˈsɪpɪd) /
lacking spirit; boring
lacking taste; unpalatable
Origin of insipid
1Derived forms of insipid
- insipidity or insipidness, noun
- insipidly, adverb
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