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Another word for insipid

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Adjective

  1. Lacking an appetizing flavor

    See also:

    taste

  2. Lacking the qualities requisite for spiritedness and originality

    See also:

    good

    excite

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Another word for insipid

Modifier

  1. Tasteless

    See also:

    tasteless

  2. Uninteresting

    See also:

    dull

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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Sentence Examples

  • Dean mum­bled an insipid apology.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • In honour of the Horae a yearly festival (Horaea) was celebrated, at which protection was sought against the scorching heat and drought, and offerings were made of boiled meat as less insipid and more nutritious than roast.

  • in 1685, was the son of Lucy Walters, "a brown, beautiful, bold but insipid creature," who became the mistress of Charles II.

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