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]

English

Adjective

1. Unappetizingly flavorless.

   The diners were disappointed with the plain, insipid soup they were served.

2. Flat; lacking character or definition.

   The textbook had a most insipid presentation of the controversy.

3. Cloyingly sweet or sentimental.

   Greeting cards contain some of the the most insipid words ever written.

Synonyms

• boring
• fatuous
• juvenile
• vacuous
• vapid

Derived terms

• insipidness

Related terms

• insipient

Translations

unintelligent, quick and harsh, not thought out.

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