insipid
Adjective Satellite
- lacking taste or flavor or tang
- "insipid hospital food"
- lacking interest or significance or impact
- "an insipid personality"
Adj
- Unappetizingly flavorless.
- Flat; lacking character or definition.
Adjective
- Lacking flavor or interest; dull or uninteresting.
Examples
- His INSIPID play, full of common three-letter words, made the game drag on.
- The diners were disappointed with the plain, insipid soup they were served.
- The textbook had a most insipid presentation of the controversy.
Origin / Etymology
From French insipide, from Latin īnsipidus (“tasteless”), from in- (“not”) + sapidus (“savory”). In some senses, perhaps influenced by insipient (“unwise, foolish, stupid”).
Synonyms
bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, jejune, savorless, savourless, vapid, boring, cardboard, characterless, colourless, dull, flaggy, gustless, ingustible, insipid, intastable, mawkish, sapidless, smackless, tame, tasteless, unsavory, untasteable, vacuous, wallowish, watery, waugh, wearish, wersh
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
insipid: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordinsipid: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
insipid: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary