insipid

[ in-sip-id ]

/ ɪnˈsɪp ɪd /

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adjective

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.

OTHER WORDS FOR insipid

1, 2 flat, dull, uninteresting.

2 tasteless, bland.

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Origin of insipid

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

OTHER WORDS FROM insipid

in·si·pid·i·ty, in·sip·id·ness, nounin·sip·id·ly, adverb

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH insipid

incipient, insipid , insipient

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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|DAILY BEAST
Leucippe herself goes far to make amends for the general insipidity of the other characters.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Mrs. Tom was very golden-haired and blue-eyed and pink and white, but none was further removed from insipidity than she.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
There could be nothing for him now till the insipidity of life should gradually fade away into the grave.
The Prime Minister|Anthony Trollope

The 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.
A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools|Various

British Dictionary definitions for insipid

insipid

/ (ɪnˈsɪpɪd) /

adjective

lacking spirit; boring

lacking taste; unpalatable

Derived forms of insipid

insipidity or insipidness, nouninsipidly, adverb

Word Origin for insipid

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

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