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Definition of insipid in English: insipidadjective ɪnˈsɪpɪdɪnˈsɪpɪd 1Lacking flavour; weak or tasteless. Example sentencesExamples - Hearty food will make lighter wine taste insipid.
- They are almost without acid and therefore insipid in flavour.
- It is important to force through nearly all of the pulp, otherwise you will lose a lot of the flavour and be left with a bowl of insipid liquid.
- Say goodbye to eating dull, monotonous and insipid food day after day.
- I am not usually given to frequenting these places for more than a cup of insipid coffee but this one, contrary to the norm used to be good.
- Leaner and therefore less tasty than the proper stuff, this flaccid, pale and insipid bacon is unfortunately afflicted with a water-retention problem.
- Don't even think about cocoa powders or the thin, insipid apology for chocolate drinks you get from machines.
- People no longer like plain insipid soups, preferring instead spicy offerings with an unusual combination of ingredients.
- A similarly well-made Béarnaise was, however, required to give an insipid chunk of New York strip steak a bit of flavour.
- It's weak, it's thin, it's insipid and it's desperately unsatisfying.
- So many South African wines, particularly the big brands, are insipid, bland offerings, despite this great diversity.
- Sadly, the larger volume of water dilutes the taste of the flavouring ingredients, thus rendering the flavour of the noodles rather watery and insipid.
- We settled for lager - and got the most insipid, tasteless liquid I've swallowed in a long time.
- There are ‘fast food’ cafeterias all over town that take advantage of this hurry and serve up what can only be described as insipid food.
- Before they are thoroughly matured, moreover, they are apt to be insipid in flavour, and to cause dyspepsia and other forms of intestinal disturbance.
- It combined beautifully with the capers, although the mustard dressing was a little too insipid and in dire danger of being lost against the other pungent tastes.
- And their only experience of strawberries is the chilled, wrapped and insipid kind from the supermarket shelf.
- There were indeed big chunks of chocolate, but the ice-cream itself was insipid and flavourless.
- They had that one small window of opportunity to be blessed with my presence at their insipid little lunch, and cookie lady blew it.
- Even today, in this age of designer bars and huge superpubs, the pint of lager is generally an insipid, watery travesty.
Synonyms tasteless, flavourless, unflavoured, savourless, bland, weak, thin, watery, watered-down, unappetizing, unpalatable informal wishy-washy Scottish, dated wersh - 1.1 Lacking vigour or interest.
many artists continued to churn out insipid, shallow works Example sentencesExamples - And the textbooks are often insipid and bland, presenting a world which has no realities that children experience.
- Hot colours tend to advance visually and dominate, making less strong colours appear dull and insipid.
- Here's the gist: insipid music, a boring story and lots of people arriving in carriages.
- Lily is very shallow and insipid; William has to buy her all of her necessities.
- I'm not interested in stupid, insipid men who flower me with ridiculous comments in the hope that I'll fall madly in love with them.
- As a vocalist, however, he only emphasises the insipid nature of his songs, most of which are reminiscent of mediocre 80s pop.
- But most agreed that many of the items were neither insipid nor shallow.
- The pictures are good but the text is mostly insipid.
- After the insipid performances from the panel during the ‘great debate’ on Sunday, it is so obvious that we do.
- Hate has its place, though, and it's just a shame that after such an attention-grabbing introduction the music is so insipid and bland.
- Perhaps a bootlegger will make something interesting out of these insipid ditties.
- The most boring, turgid, insipid or blatantly tragic films become a source of immense fun and wonder in his hands.
- The magic of melody and voice can work wonders with a poem, which would otherwise have been insipid to the ordinary reader.
- By the way, incongruity is the middle name of this insipid film with characters too many and too sketchy and actors short of work or talent, or both.
- More dull, bland, insipid and uninspiring commercial radio is on its way!
- Besides that, the dull weapons, graphics and truly uninspiring level design made this game one insipid boring waste of time.
- 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.
- It represents nothing more than banality, platitudes, and outrageous nonsense clumsily conveyed by insipid prose.
- Mind you it is doubtful we will see a shallower, more insipid attempt at shifting the blame from the attacker to a victim.
- Henry's charm begins to work on Carol, who's bored by her dull life and insipid husband.
Synonyms uninteresting, boring, vapid, dull, spiritless, zestless, bloodless, lifeless, characterless, lacking personality, lacking charisma, anaemic, wishy-washy, pathetic ordinary, commonplace, middle-of-the-road, run-of-the mill, not amounting to much unimaginative, uninspired, uninspiring, characterless, flat, bland, vapid, uninteresting, unexciting, lacklustre, lustreless, dull, prosaic, boring, monotonous, tedious, wearisome, dry, dry as dust, jejune, humdrum, run-of-the-mill, commonplace, pedestrian, trite, banal, tired, hackneyed, stale, lame, tame, poor, inadequate, half-hearted, bloodless, sterile, anaemic, barren informal hacky British informal common or garden
Derivatives noun ɪnsɪˈpɪdɪtiˌɪnsəˈpɪdədi Never mind contemporary country music, with its upbeat insipidity, which is to the genre at its best as a giant shopping complex is to the wild terrain eradicated to build it. Example sentencesExamples - I am thoroughly disillusioned by the insipidity that is creeping into all aspects of daily life.
- Yet when does this politeness, this so-called consideration become mere insipidity?
- The dryness and insipidity of their surroundings has taught them the value of colors which they reflect in their costumes, in their paintings, in their handicrafts and even in their thoughts.
- His choreography is banal to the point of insipidity, and the acting he requests from his dancers is utterly unconvincing.
adverb ɪnˈsɪpɪdliɪnˈsɪpɪdli He moves with a real, not acted, awkwardness; gazes insipidly out of weirdly hooded eyes; and speaks in choppy phrases. Example sentencesExamples - The three youngsters on tape appeared awkward, repeating cliched ballet moves insipidly rather than exploring new territory with vigor.
- As Charlotte grows bored of her somewhat vacuous husband and his insipidly shallow colleagues, she befriends Bob and the two of them embark upon one of the most realistically restrained romances in movie history.
- In his own work, the monumental rather insipidly won out.
- ‘Come in,’ I called insipidly, as usual engrossed in a book.
noun ɪnˈsɪpɪdnəsɪnˈsɪpɪdnəs Gone was the insipidness and lethargy we had witnessed. Example sentencesExamples - Such insipidness ought to be dismissed out of hand immediately.
- Gone was the fighting spirit and fierce determination of the drawn game, and in its place an insipidness and almost a willingness to accept defeat that should have no place in a county final.
- So as frivolous as the story may be I think it's worth paying attention to as a sort of object lesson in the mainstream press's general insipidness and openness to manipulation.
- Yes, the insipidness of some of the exhibits are testament to creativity by committee.
Origin Early 17th century: from French insipide or late Latin insipidus, from in- 'not' + sapidus (see sapid). Definition of insipid in US English: insipidadjectiveɪnˈsɪpɪdinˈsipid 1Lacking flavor. Example sentencesExamples - People no longer like plain insipid soups, preferring instead spicy offerings with an unusual combination of ingredients.
- There were indeed big chunks of chocolate, but the ice-cream itself was insipid and flavourless.
- Sadly, the larger volume of water dilutes the taste of the flavouring ingredients, thus rendering the flavour of the noodles rather watery and insipid.
- There are ‘fast food’ cafeterias all over town that take advantage of this hurry and serve up what can only be described as insipid food.
- They had that one small window of opportunity to be blessed with my presence at their insipid little lunch, and cookie lady blew it.
- It's weak, it's thin, it's insipid and it's desperately unsatisfying.
- Don't even think about cocoa powders or the thin, insipid apology for chocolate drinks you get from machines.
- Before they are thoroughly matured, moreover, they are apt to be insipid in flavour, and to cause dyspepsia and other forms of intestinal disturbance.
- Leaner and therefore less tasty than the proper stuff, this flaccid, pale and insipid bacon is unfortunately afflicted with a water-retention problem.
- Even today, in this age of designer bars and huge superpubs, the pint of lager is generally an insipid, watery travesty.
- We settled for lager - and got the most insipid, tasteless liquid I've swallowed in a long time.
- Say goodbye to eating dull, monotonous and insipid food day after day.
- It is important to force through nearly all of the pulp, otherwise you will lose a lot of the flavour and be left with a bowl of insipid liquid.
- And their only experience of strawberries is the chilled, wrapped and insipid kind from the supermarket shelf.
- It combined beautifully with the capers, although the mustard dressing was a little too insipid and in dire danger of being lost against the other pungent tastes.
- A similarly well-made Béarnaise was, however, required to give an insipid chunk of New York strip steak a bit of flavour.
- Hearty food will make lighter wine taste insipid.
- They are almost without acid and therefore insipid in flavour.
- So many South African wines, particularly the big brands, are insipid, bland offerings, despite this great diversity.
- I am not usually given to frequenting these places for more than a cup of insipid coffee but this one, contrary to the norm used to be good.
Synonyms tasteless, flavourless, unflavoured, savourless, bland, weak, thin, watery, watered-down, unappetizing, unpalatable - 1.1 Lacking vigor or interest.
many artists continued to churn out insipid, shallow works Example sentencesExamples - Mind you it is doubtful we will see a shallower, more insipid attempt at shifting the blame from the attacker to a victim.
- The magic of melody and voice can work wonders with a poem, which would otherwise have been insipid to the ordinary reader.
- Henry's charm begins to work on Carol, who's bored by her dull life and insipid husband.
- Hot colours tend to advance visually and dominate, making less strong colours appear dull and insipid.
- It represents nothing more than banality, platitudes, and outrageous nonsense clumsily conveyed by insipid prose.
- And the textbooks are often insipid and bland, presenting a world which has no realities that children experience.
- But most agreed that many of the items were neither insipid nor shallow.
- Perhaps a bootlegger will make something interesting out of these insipid ditties.
- As a vocalist, however, he only emphasises the insipid nature of his songs, most of which are reminiscent of mediocre 80s pop.
- 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.
- Besides that, the dull weapons, graphics and truly uninspiring level design made this game one insipid boring waste of time.
- Hate has its place, though, and it's just a shame that after such an attention-grabbing introduction the music is so insipid and bland.
- The pictures are good but the text is mostly insipid.
- I'm not interested in stupid, insipid men who flower me with ridiculous comments in the hope that I'll fall madly in love with them.
- More dull, bland, insipid and uninspiring commercial radio is on its way!
- The most boring, turgid, insipid or blatantly tragic films become a source of immense fun and wonder in his hands.
- Lily is very shallow and insipid; William has to buy her all of her necessities.
- By the way, incongruity is the middle name of this insipid film with characters too many and too sketchy and actors short of work or talent, or both.
- After the insipid performances from the panel during the ‘great debate’ on Sunday, it is so obvious that we do.
- Here's the gist: insipid music, a boring story and lots of people arriving in carriages.
Synonyms uninteresting, boring, vapid, dull, spiritless, zestless, bloodless, lifeless, characterless, lacking personality, lacking charisma, anaemic, wishy-washy, pathetic unimaginative, uninspired, uninspiring, characterless, flat, bland, vapid, uninteresting, unexciting, lacklustre, lustreless, dull, prosaic, boring, monotonous, tedious, wearisome, dry, dry as dust, jejune, humdrum, run-of-the-mill, commonplace, pedestrian, trite, banal, tired, hackneyed, stale, lame, tame, poor, inadequate, half-hearted, bloodless, sterile, anaemic, barren
Origin Early 17th century: from French insipide or late Latin insipidus, from in- ‘not’ + sapidus (see sapid). |