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Definition of insipid :
1. Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an insipid composition.
2. Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food.
Synonyms:
monotonic, suave, puerile, harmless, matted, juvenile, unconditional, mat, level, good, plane, monotone, compressed, innocuous, namby-pamby, washy, politic, flavourless, adolescent, prostrate, categoric, unappetising, savourless, unappetizing, taste, smooth, excite, matt, wishy-washy, waterish, insubstantial, matte, two-dimensional, lifeless, categorical
irresolute (part of speech: adjective)
shy, uncertain, ambivalent, undecided, shilly-shally, watery, inconsistent, hesitant, dillydallying, infirm, spineless, indecisive, irresponsible, shifty, vacillating, unsure, irresolute, flitting, yellow, weak, impulsive, capricious, volatile, changeable, erratic, double-minded, unwilling, shrinking, unresolved, halfhearted, fly-by-night, tentative, fickle, undependable
boring (part of speech: adjective)
mundane, prosaic, boring, depressing, humdrum, commonplace, monotonous, dull, dreary, tiresome, dry, uninteresting, wearisome, tedious
mild (part of speech: adjective)
genial, open-minded, liberal, amiable, even, meek, charitable, lax, forbearing, libertarian, peaceful, kind, quiet, peaceable, benign, mild, gentle, moderate, benevolent, tender, sweet, permissive, tolerant, lenient, clement, broad-minded, cordial, soft
tasteless (part of speech: adjective)
jejune, unsavory, banal, milquetoast, plain, flat, vapid, flavorless, tasteless, savorless, stale, bland
unimportant (part of speech: adjective)
inconsequential, flyspeck, minute, irrelevant, piddling, one-horse, unimportant, trifling, frivolous, insignificant, trite, worthless, fiddling, measly, trivial
Usage examples:
- Up, and after a little at my office to prepare a fresh draught of my vowes for the next yeare, I to church, where a most insipid young coxcomb preached. - "Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright", Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke.
- There was something in it so insipid to her, that she had never felt an inclination to more than taste it. - "The Lights and Shadows of Real Life", T.S. Arthur Edition: 10 Language: English.
- You see, this is the situation: I am married to a very nice man who loves me and whose only crime is that he represents the rather insipid happiness which one has right at hand. - "LÃ -bas", J. K. Huysmans.