Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lacking flavor or zest; not tasty.
- adj. Lacking qualities that excite, stimulate, or interest; dull.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Without any taste; not exciting the sense of taste; without flavor or savor.
- Without a definite taste; having a taste which from its faintness and undecided character appears negative, insufficient, or slightly disagreeable; flat in taste.
- Hence Without power to excite interest or emotion; without attraction; uninteresting; dull; flat.
- Synonyms Lifeless, stale, tame, prosaic, stupid.
Wiktionary
- adj. Unappetizingly flavorless.
- adj. Flat; lacking character or definition.
- adj. Cloyingly sweet or sentimental.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless.
- adj. Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lacking taste or flavor or tang
- adj. lacking interest or significance or impact
Etymologies
- 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).
Examples
“Recently we have been ‘Christmas’ but before that ‘festive season’ whilst insipid is the closest we can get to I guess?”
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“You called it "insipid"--dunno, for me, one of its charms was how it managed to sidestep being insipid.”
“The Hijazi is a round fruit, sweet, but insipid, which is also the reproach of the Sawadi, or black grape.”
“The fish has no scales, nor any bones, excepting that of the middle: its flesh is very good and delicate, but in a small degree vary insipid, which is easily remedied; in other respects it eats very like the fresh cod of the country.”
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“I wouldn't call her insipid if I were in your place," he remonstrated.”
“New York City, called insipid (1810), ~1~, 20 defences in War of 1812, 150”
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II
“At last an old Lady, who had three Daughters marriagable, said, she wondered to hear Mr. _Hickman_ called insipid; for she thought there could be no Reason for giving him that Appellation, unless young”
“Carly Flynn, who managed to be "the nice one" without being insipid, which is a tricky balance to manage (not that I've ever tried).”
“However I'm unaware whether any survey exists asking about John Edwards 'love child and the state of the John and Elizabeth marriage, the NBC late-night programming issues concerning Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien, or nearly anything else that can only kindly be classified as insipid, dumb, moronic, my biased guess is that more Americans would fare better with those matters than they did with the just basic stuff Pew asked.”
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“The following week he performed what can only be described as insipid, self-parody during the Super Bowl halftime.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘insipid’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4084 more...
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Iaan
dirigisme, dystopia, cacotopia, ex ante, veritable, indefatigable, curmudgeon, desultory, antediluvian, transmogrify, pendent, elongate and 136 more...
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( etymology )
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 837 more...
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If You Can't Say Anything Nice
Negative attributes or actions.
biased, cantankerous, caustic, contumacious, dilatory, disdain, duplicitous, fastidious, fractious, glower, haughty, imperious and 12 more...
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macabre
words associated with the macabre & horror.
ghastly, grisly, culeus, silly, gruesome, horrid, morbid, angelic, shocking, hideous, ghoulish, frightful and 85 more...
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Rexicon
brazen, insipid, cuss, penchant, salacious, titillate, lurid, schlemiel, interlope, masquerade, supercilious, action-taking and 51 more...
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Vocab to Learn
philander, affidavit, ambrosia, niggardly, insipid, sedulous, pithy, felicity, lurid, indolent, ponderous, hirsute and 2 more...
jorge999 One evening as I sipped my tea
a fly fell in, unknown to me,
Careless and unknowing I
insipid fly Nov 14, 2009
bilby I'm with you, logos. Aug 8, 2008
super-logos This is a truly marvelous word that captures the essence of our TV and popular magazine-crazed culture. I also think this word is just about the worst thing you can call a person and still be polite (sort of). Aug 8, 2008
thedayhascome /in SIP id/ adj · Lacking intelligence, interest or significance. Aug 7, 2008