Insipid

English

Adjective

Insipid (comparative more Insipid, superlative most Insipid)

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
• corny
• fatuous
• juvenile
• tasteless
• vacuous
• vapid
• dull
• bland
• colourless, colorless
• characterless

Derived terms

• insipidly
• insipidness
• insipidity

Related terms

• insipient

Adverbs for Insipid

stupidly; feebly; unusually; habitually; naturally; hopelessly; tiresomely; vacuously; fatuously; colorlessly; vexatiously; tediously; prosaically; dully; doltishly; inertly; passively; phlegmatically; listlessly; lackadaisically; recklessly; uninterestingly; monotonously; depressingly; unbearably.

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

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ɪnˈsɪp.ɪd/

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