insipid

[ in-sip-id ]

adjective

1. without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid:

   an insipid personality.

   Synonyms: uninteresting, dull, flat

2. without sufficient taste to be pleasing, as food or drink; bland:

   a rather insipid soup.

   Synonyms: uninteresting, bland, tasteless, dull, flat

insipid

/ ɪnˈsɪpɪd /

adjective

1. lacking spirit; boring
2. lacking taste; unpalatable

Derived Forms

• inˈsipidly, adverb
• ˌinsiˈpidity, noun

Other Words From

• insi·pidi·ty in·sipid·ness noun
• in·sipid·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of insipid¹

1610–20; < Latin insipidus, equivalent to in- in- ³ + -sipidus, combining form of sapidus sapid

Word History and Origins

Origin of insipid¹

C17: from Latin insipidus, from in- ¹+ sapidus full of flavour, sapid

Example Sentences

Going straight from “Pie” to “Music,” one of M’s most lyrically insipid compositions ever to my ear, is especially painful.

From Washington Blade

If you are a sports fan, as I am, and also a sentient human being, as at least a few of my readers are, you are aware of the stunningly insipid nature of sports interviews.

From Washington Post

When I saw it listed on the contents page, I thought, “Why would he write about a song that insipid?”

From The Daily Beast

This time, long-suffering conservatives endured nothing embarrassing or bizarre, insipid, or outlandish.

From The Daily Beast

Other foods that came canned, including more limp, insipid vegetables, overly syrupy fruits, and sloppy stews were equally gross.

From The Daily Beast

The insipid GOP chairman, Michael Steele, blamed Scozzafava for endorsing the Democratic candidate, Bill Owen.

From The Daily Beast

Dispense with all the insipid government meddling and let the market decide what happens to Wall Street from this point forward.

From The Daily Beast

She was a plump-faced, insipid child, with fair hair and pale blue eyes, stolid and bovine in their expressionlessness.

From Project Gutenberg

Scarcely anything has been written against the French Academy, except frivolous and insipid pleasantries.

From Project Gutenberg

Such a description would not now be tolerated in one of our most insipid novels.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

Those of his works that have come under our notice are for the most part tame and insipid.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• banal
• bland
• ho-hum
• innocuous
• trite
• vapid