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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. lacking taste or flavor or tang;
- Example: "a bland diet"
- Example: "insipid hospital food"
- Example: "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"
- Example: "vapid beer"
- Example: "vapid tea"
[syn: bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid]

2. lacking interest or significance or impact;
- Example: "an insipid personality"
- Example: "jejune novel"
[syn: insipid, jejune]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Insipid \In*sip"id\, a. [L. insipidus; pref. in- not + sapidus
   savory, fr. sapere to taste: cf. F. insipide. See Savor.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste;
      without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid
      drink or food. --Boyle.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting;
      weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an
      insipid composition.
      [1913 Webster]

            Flat, insipid, and ridiculous stuff to him. --South.
      [1913 Webster]

            But his wit is faint, and his salt, if I may dare to
            say so, almost insipid.               --Dryden.

   Syn: Tasteless; vapid; dull; spiritless; unanimated;
        lifeless; flat; stale; pointless; uninteresting.
        Insipidity


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

insipid
    adj 1: lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid
           hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid
           beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: bland, flat, flavorless,
           flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless,
           vapid]
    2: lacking interest or significance or impact; "an insipid
       personality"; "jejune novel" [syn: insipid, jejune]