Another word for insipid
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Adjective
Lacking an appetizing flavor
- Distasteful or disagreeable:
- Not savory:
- Morally offensive:
- Lacking flavor; insipid.
- Not having or showing good taste.
- Having a smooth, even surface:
- Having a relatively broad level surface in relation to thickness or depth:
- Being in horizontal position; lying down:
- Pleasant in manner; smooth:
- Not irritating or stimulating; soothing:
- Exhibiting no personal worry, embarrassment, or concern:
See also:Lacking the qualities requisite for spiritedness and originality
- Irresolute or indecisive:
- Lacking in purpose; weak or ineffective:
- Thin and watery, as tea or soup.
- Filled with, consisting of, or soaked with water; wet or soggy:
- Containing too much water; diluted:
- Suggestive of water, as in being thin, pale, or liquid:
- Resembling water; watery.
- Pale in color; washed-out.
- Watery; diluted:
- Lacking strength or resolution:
- Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull:
- Lacking taste, zest, or flavor; flat:
- Weak, sentimental, or unrealistic:
- Lacking vigor or decisiveness; weak or spineless:
- One that is weak, sentimental, or indecisive.
- Not interesting; dull:
- Lacking maturity; childish:
- Lacking in nutrition:
- Having no adverse effect; harmless.
- Not likely to offend or provoke to strong emotion; insipid.
- Pleasant in manner; smooth:
- Not irritating or stimulating; soothing:
- Exhibiting no personal worry, embarrassment, or concern:
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Another word for insipid
Modifier
Tasteless
- Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull:
- Lacking taste, zest, or flavor; flat:
- Having lost freshness, effervescence, or palatability:
- Lacking originality or spontaneity:
- Ineffective or uninspired, usually from being out of practice or from having done the same thing for too long.
- Having a smooth, even surface:
- Having a relatively broad level surface in relation to thickness or depth:
- Being in horizontal position; lying down:
See also:Uninteresting
- Having no life; inanimate.
- Having lost life; dead.
- Not inhabited by living beings or capable of sustaining life:
- Lacking physical strength, energy, or vigor; feeble.
- Likely to fail under pressure, stress, or strain; lacking resistance:
- Lacking firmness of character or strength of will:
- Drearily commonplace and often predictable; trite:
- Having a smooth, even surface:
- Having a relatively broad level surface in relation to thickness or depth:
- Being in horizontal position; lying down:
- Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull:
- Lacking taste, zest, or flavor; flat:
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Synonym Study
- Banal is used of that which is so trite or hackneyed as to seem highly vapid or flat her banal compliments
- 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
- Insipid implies a lack of taste or flavor and is, hence, figuratively applied to anything that is lifeless, dull, etc. insipid table talk
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