Insipid

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Insipid \In*sip"id\, a. [L. insipidus; pref. in- not + sapidus
     savory, fr. sapere to taste: cf. F. insipide. See {Savor}.]
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     1. Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste;
        without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid
        drink or food. --Boyle.


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     2. Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting;
        weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an
        insipid composition.
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              Flat, insipid, and ridiculous stuff to him. --South.
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              But his wit is faint, and his salt, if I may dare to
              say so, almost insipid.               --Dryden.
  
     Syn: Tasteless; vapid; dull; spiritless; unanimated;
          lifeless; flat; stale; pointless; uninteresting.
          Insipidity

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  insipid
       adj 1: lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid
              hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes";
              "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: {bland}, {flat}, {flavorless},
               {flavourless}, {savorless}, {savourless}, {vapid}]
       2: lacking significance or impact; "an insipid novel"
       3: lacking interest or significance; "an insipid personality";
          "jejune novel" [syn: {jejune}]
       4: not pleasing to the sense of taste [syn: {tasteless}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  152 Moby Thesaurus words for "insipid":
     arid, banal, bare, barren, betwixt and between, blah, bland, blank,
     bleached, bloodless, bromidic, changeable, characterless, clear,
     cold, colorless, common, commonplace, dead, devoid, dilute,
     diluted, dismal, distasteful, draggy, drearisome, dreary,
     driveling, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty,
     etiolated, fade, fair, fair to middling, fairish, featureless,
     feeble, flat, flavorless, gruelly, halfhearted, heavy, ho-hum,
     hollow, humdrum, ill-flavored, inane, indecisive, indifferent,
     inexcitable, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, innocuous,
     irresolute, jejune, lackluster, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited,
     matter-of-fact, mediocre, medium, middling, mild, milk-and-water,
     milky, moderate, modest, mundane, mushy, namby-pamby, neutral,
     null, null and void, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, ordinary,
     pale, pallid, pappy, passable, pedestrian, plain, plodding,
     poetryless, pointless, poky, ponderous, prosaic, prosing, prosy,
     pulpy, respectable, sapless, savorless, slight, slow, so-so, soft,
     solemn, spiceless, spiritless, stale, sterile, stiff, stodgy,
     stuffy, subdued, superficial, swashy, tame, tasteless, tedious,
     tenuous, thin, tiresome, tolerable, unappetizing, unembellished,
     unflavored, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned,
     uninteresting, unlively, unpoetic, unrelieved, unromantic,
     unsavory, vacant, vacuous, vapid, void, washy, watered,
     watered-down, waterish, watery, weak, weariful, wearisome, white,
     wishy-washy, with nothing inside, without content, wooden