Definition of insipid Insipid

in•sip•id

We found 10 definitions of insipid from 5 different sources.

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What does insipid mean?

WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Adjective

insipid - lacking interest or significance or impact; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel"
  jejune
  uninteresting characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative; "institutional food"
insipid - lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"
  bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, savorless, savourless, vapid
  tasteless lacking aesthetic or social taste
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • insipid (a.)
    Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food.
  • insipid (a.)
    Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an insipid composition.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • insipid
    Utterly lacking in intelligence or depth.
  • insipid
    Having no flavour.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • insipid
    in-sip′id, adj. tasteless: wanting spirit or animation: dull.—adv. Insip′idly.—ns. Insip′idness, Insipid′ity, want of taste. [Fr.,—Low L.,—L. in, not, sapidus, well-tasted—sapĕre, to taste.]

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