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[ in-sip-id ] / ɪnˈsɪp ɪd / SEE SYNONYMS FOR insipid ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivewithout 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 insipid1610–20; <Latin insipidus, equivalent to in-in-3 + -sipidus, combining form of sapidussapid SYNONYMS FOR insipid1, 2 flat, dull, uninteresting. 2 tasteless, bland. SEE SYNONYMS FOR insipid ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM insipidin·si·pid·i·ty, in·sip·id·ness, nounin·sip·id·ly, adverbWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH insipidincipient, insipid , insipientWords nearby insipidinsincerity, in single file, insinuate, insinuating, insinuation, insipid, insipience, insist, insistence, insistency, insistent Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for insipidWhen I saw it listed on the contents page, I thought, “Why would he write about a song that insipid?” Greil Marcus Talks About Trying to Unlock Rock and Roll in 10 Songs|Allen Barra|November 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST This time, long-suffering conservatives endured nothing embarrassing or bizarre, insipid, or outlandish. A Winning Final Four at the GOP Debate in Charleston|Michael Medved|January 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST Other foods that came canned, including more limp, insipid vegetables, overly syrupy fruits, and sloppy stews were equally gross. The Weirdest Food Trend Ever|Robert Rosenthal|July 15, 2010|DAILY BEAST The insipid GOP chairman, Michael Steele, blamed Scozzafava for endorsing the Democratic candidate, Bill Owen. Bachmann's Angry Mob|John Batchelor|November 6, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Dispense with all the insipid government meddling and let the market decide what happens to Wall Street from this point forward. Let Wall Street Fail|William D. Cohan|February 10, 2009|DAILY BEAST Love is ridiculous or insipid in nearly all his other works. Initiation into Literature|Emile Faguet Life later had made her rational, altogether too rational and insipid. The Complete Opera Book|Gustav Kobb Panthea is innocent, but insipid; Mardonius a good specimen of what Fletcher loves to exhibit, the plain honest courtier. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2|Henry Hallam The return, like the leave-taking, produces an anticipated sadness, which gives one a proof of the insipid life we lead. Over Strand and Field|Gustave Flaubert I'm never up to his young girls—he is so very fond of the age of 'Nell,' when they are most insipid. Dickens and His Illustrators|Frederic G. Kitton
British Dictionary definitions for insipid
adjectivelacking spirit; boring lacking taste; unpalatable Derived forms of insipidinsipidity or insipidness, nouninsipidly, adverbWord Origin for insipidC17: from Latin insipidus, from in- 1 + sapidus full of flavour, sapid Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to insipidinnocuous, vapid, trite, bland, banal, ho-hum, unappetizing, anemic, arid, beige, blah, colorless, commonplace, dead, drab, dry, feeble, flat, inane, jejune |