'Insipid' definitions:
Definition of 'insipid'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid]
adjective
Lacking interest or significance or impact; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel" [syn: insipid, jejune]
Definition of 'Insipid'
From: GCIDE
- Insipid \In*sip"id\, a. [L. insipidus; pref. in- not + sapidus savory, fr. sapere to taste: cf. F. insipide. See Savor.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an insipid composition. [1913 Webster]
- Flat, insipid, and ridiculous stuff to him. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 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
Synonyms of 'insipid'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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