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UK
/ɪnsˈɪpɪd/
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[ US /ˌɪnˈsɪpəd/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈsɪpəd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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lacking interest or significance or impact
an insipid personality
jejune novel -
lacking taste or flavor or tang
vapid tea
insipid hospital food
vapid beer
flavorless supermarket tomatoes
a bland diet
How To Use insipid In A Sentence
- When this breaker crashed onto the beach of popular culture, the legend was made and the grave dug, but the music his legacy has inspired is insipid and dull.
- Prima_ are neither ingenerable nor incorruptible Substances; since by his _Alkahest_ some of them may be produc'd of Bodies that were before of another Denomination; and by the same powerfull _Menstruum_ all of them may be reduc'd into insipid Water. The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of
- The audio foreground, however, is dominated by the insipid, warbling, and off-key sound of Gareth Gates murdering a late 1970s disco classic.
- What kind of upturn can we expect when this is over - vigorous or insipid? Times, Sunday Times
- I would like your temperate drinker to pause, and reflect upon the fact, that the quantity of brandy or rum that he took at a drink, when he commenced this downhill course, has been gradually increased; so that in the second year, what had been quite sufficient to please his palate and produce all the desired effects in the first, was then insipidly small; and more so in the third year, if, mayhap, he could with any decency lay claim to the title of _temperate drinker_ so long. Select Temperance Tracts
- an insipid personality
- Suddenly the centre ground seems insipid. The Sun
- Insipid, as if the full, lush taste of prime toro had been washed out by some mysterious force.
- I wouldn't call her insipid if I were in your place," he remonstrated. Frank Merriwell's Son A Chip Off the Old Block
- Patients with intracranial germinoma at other locations may present with diabetes insipidus, hypopituitarism, and Perinaud syndrome.