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
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drabness, dreariness, weariness, flatness, dryness, sameness, insipidness, familiarity, routine, vapidity, sterility, tedium, mildness, gentility, blandness, stodginess, tediousness, slowness, boredom, stalenessExamples from the Web for insipidity
Historical Examples of insipidity
She is divinely innocent, but roguishness saves her from insipidity.
A Cathedral CourtshipKate Douglas Wiggin
The insipidity and yet the noise; the nothingness and yet the self-importance of all these people!
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen
She says she was moved to the remark by the insipidity of the dish.
Animal Life of the British IslesEdward Step
Mr. Read's fondness was the saccharine that qualified the insipidity of his wife's apathy.
AloneMarion Harland
Nor must this be mistaken for insipidity or weakness of design.
Chats on Royal Copenhagen PorcelainArthur Hayden
insipid
- lacking spirit; boring
- lacking taste; unpalatable
Word Origin for insipid
Word Origin and History for insipidity
insipid
1610s, "without taste or perceptible flavor," from French insipide (16c.), from Late Latin inspidus "tasteless," from Latin in- "not" (see in- (1)) + sapidus "tasty," from sapere "have a taste" (also "be wise;" see sapient). Figurative meaning "uninteresting, dull" first recorded 1640s, but it was also a secondary sense in Medieval Latin.
In ye coach ... went Mrs. Barlow, the King's mistress and mother to ye Duke of Monmouth, a browne, beautifull, bold, but insipid creature. [John Evelyn, diary, Aug. 18, 1649]
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