insipid

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  1. adjective Lacking flavor or zest; not tasty.
  2. adjective Lacking qualities that excite, stimulate, or interest; dull.

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  • Nothing of all the cheer in the parlour that I taste; all's insipid, and all will be so to me, till I see and enjoy you again. —  Selected English Letters
  • High Brunswicks, Bevern with Duchess, and still more important, with Son and with Daughter: -- insipid CORPUS DELICTI herself has appeared on the scene; and Grumkow, we find, has been writing some description of her to the Crown-Prince. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • It is understood he did not, in his heart, nearly so much dislike the insipid Princess as he wished Papa to think he did. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • They have a savour which renders the best things insipid, and it is with these good doctrines that the six or seven volumes of the Comte de Valmont are filled. —  Recollections of My Youth
  • “They who find America insipid, — they for whom London and Paris have spoiled their own homes, can be spared to return to those cities. —  Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

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uninteresting ·  trivial ·  tiresome ·  tasteless ·  vapid ·  meaningless ·  stale ·  trite ·  colorless ·  monotonous ·  bland ·  unmeaning
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French insipide, from Late Latin īnsipidus : Latin in-, not; see in-1 + Latin sapidus, savory (from sapere, to taste; see sep- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. = French insipide = Provencal insipid = Spanish insípido = Portuguese Italian insipido, from Late Latin insipidus, tasteless, from Latin in- privative + sapidus, having a taste, savory: see sapid.
 

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/ɪnˈsɪpɪd/
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