What does Insipid mean?
Definitions for Insipid
ɪnˈsɪp ɪdin·sipid
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Insipid.
Princeton's WordNet
bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapidadjective
lacking taste or flavor or tang
"a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"
insipid, jejuneadjective
lacking interest or significance or impact
"an insipid personality"; "jejune novel"
Wiktionary
insipidadjective
Unappetizingly flavorless.
The diners were disappointed with the plain, insipid soup they were served.
insipidadjective
Flat; lacking character or definition.
The textbook had a most insipid presentation of the controversy.
insipidadjective
Cloyingly sweet or sentimental.
Greeting cards contain some of the the most insipid words ever written.
Etymology: From insipidus, from in- + sapidus.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
INSIPIDadjective
Etymology: insipider, French; insipidus, Latin.
Some earths yield, by distillation, a liquor very far from being inodorous or insipid. Boyle.
This chyle is the natural and alimentary pituita, which the ancients described as insipid. John Floyer, on the Humours.
She lays some useful bile aside,
To tinge the chyle's insipid tide. Matthew Prior.The gods have made your noble mind for me,
And her insipid soul for Ptolemy;
A heavy lump of earth without desire,
A heap of ashes that o'er-lays your fire. John Dryden, Cleom.Some short excursions of a broken vow
He made indeed, but flat insipid stuff. John Dryden, Don Sebast.
ChatGPT
insipid
Insipid refers to something lacking flavor, zest, interest, or excitement. It often denotes dullness, blandness or tediousness, whether in terms of taste or character. It can be used to describe food, a person's personality, a piece of writing, a conversation, or an event, amongst other things.
Webster Dictionary
Insipidadjective
wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food
Insipidadjective
wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an insipid composition
Chambers 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.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Insipid in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Insipid in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of Insipid in a Sentence
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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- insípidCatalan, Valencian
- mdlýCzech
- stumpfsinnig, fade, charakterlos, abgestanden, geschmacklos, lasch, geistlosGerman
- άγευστος, ανούσιος, άνοστος, σαχλόςGreek
- cursi, insípido, insulso, sosoSpanish
- mauton, lattea, mielenkiinnoton, valjuFinnish
- ana-blastaScottish Gaelic
- neuvlaystalManx
- 卑劣なJapanese
- 지루한Korean
- makiha, mākihakiha, hākoreMāori
- karakterloos, smakeloos, smaakloos, flauwDutch
- smakløs, flauNorwegian
- mdłyPolish
- insípidoPortuguese
- nesimțitor, fără caracter, fără spirit, fad, anost, insipid, nesensibil, nespiritual, fără gust, searbădRomanian
- неинтересный, скучный, безвкусный, слащавый, пресный, плоскийRussian
- 平淡Chinese
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