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Another word for insipid

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insipid

modif.

Tasteless
flat, stale, vapid; see tasteless 1.
Uninteresting
vapid, flat, banal, weak, lifeless, characterless; see also dull 4.

insipid implies a lack of taste or flavor and is, hence, figuratively applied to anything that is lifeless, dull, etc. insipid table talk; vapid and flat apply to that which once had, but has since lost, freshness, sharpness, tang, zest, etc. the vapid, or flat, epigrams that had once so delighted him; banal is used of that which is so trite or hackneyed as to seem highly vapid or flat her banal compliments

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Another word for insipid

adjective

Lacking an appetizing flavor:
bland, flat, flavorless, tasteless, unsavory. See taste
Lacking the qualities requisite for spiritedness and originality:
bland, innocuous, jejune, namby-pamby, vapid, washy, waterish, watery. (Informal) wishy-washy. See excite, good

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It's jealous and insipid comments like these, some would argue, that contribute to the unhealthy attitude towards food and body image so prevalent in our culture today.
And trust me on this; I've always paused before any Rosè due to my inherent association with it to that perfidious and insipid White Zinfandel that rued the day for the wine-drinking public in the 1980's.
Dean mumbled an insipid apology.
William Law's books produced a great impression on Wesley, and on his advice the young tutor began to read mystic authors, but he saw that their tendency was to make good works appear mean and insipid, and he soon laid them aside.
Their primitive beauty is not marred by any attempt to force them into an historical mould, or disguised beneath an accumulation of the insipid inventions of later times.

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