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insipid
[ in-sip-id ]
adjective
- without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid:
an insipid personality.
Synonyms: uninteresting, dull, flat
- without sufficient taste to be pleasing, as food or drink; bland:
a rather insipid soup.
Synonyms: uninteresting, bland, tasteless, dull, flat
insipid
/ ɪnˈsɪpɪd /
adjective
- lacking spirit; boring
- lacking taste; unpalatable
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Derived Forms
- inˈsipidly, adverb
- ˌinsiˈpidity, noun
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Other Words From
- insi·pidi·ty in·sipid·ness noun
- in·sipid·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of insipid1
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Example Sentences
When I saw it listed on the contents page, I thought, “Why would he write about a song that insipid?”
This time, long-suffering conservatives endured nothing embarrassing or bizarre, insipid, or outlandish.
Other foods that came canned, including more limp, insipid vegetables, overly syrupy fruits, and sloppy stews were equally gross.
The insipid GOP chairman, Michael Steele, blamed Scozzafava for endorsing the Democratic candidate, Bill Owen.
Dispense with all the insipid government meddling and let the market decide what happens to Wall Street from this point forward.
She was a plump-faced, insipid child, with fair hair and pale blue eyes, stolid and bovine in their expressionlessness.
Scarcely anything has been written against the French Academy, except frivolous and insipid pleasantries.
Such a description would not now be tolerated in one of our most insipid novels.
A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him dull and insipid.
Those of his works that have come under our notice are for the most part tame and insipid.
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