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adjective
1.
without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality.
2.
without sufficient taste to be pleasing, as food or drink; bland: a rather insipid soup.
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insipid
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Example Sentences
- Apart from the insipid brew, there's another good reason for the non-proliferation of this drink.
- There the federal troopers spent a miserable winter, complaining about the insipid food.
- Artificial and insipid as the play now seems, its combination of emotion, action and theory was considered a revelation.
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Word Origin & History
insipid
1610s, "without taste or perceptible flavor," from Fr. insipide, from L.L. inspidus "tasteless," from L. in- "not" + sapidus "tasty," from sapere "have a taste" (also "be wise"). Fig. meaning "uninteresting, dull" first recorded 1640s, but it was also a secondary sense in M.L.
EXPAND"In ye coach ... went Mrs. Barlow, the King's mistress and mother to ye Duke of Monmouth, a browne, beautifull, bold, but insipid creature." [John Evelyn, diary, Aug. 18, 1649]
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