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INSIPID
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking interest or significance or impact
Example:
jejune novel
Synonyms:
insipid; jejune
Classified under:
Similar:
uninteresting (arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement)
Derivation:
insipidness (extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lacking taste or flavor or tang
Example:
vapid tea
Synonyms:
bland; flat; flavorless; flavourless; insipid; savorless; savourless; vapid
Classified under:
Similar:
tasteless (lacking flavor)
Derivation:
insipidity; insipidness (lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property)
Context examples:
You decide on his imperfections so much in the mass, replied Elinor, and so much on the strength of your own imagination, that the commendation I am able to give of him is comparatively cold and insipid.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
It is my opinion the fiddler David must have been an insipid sort of fellow; I like black Bothwell better: to my mind a man is nothing without a spice of the devil in him; and history may say what it will of James Hepburn, but I have a notion, he was just the sort of wild, fierce, bandit hero whom I could have consented to gift with my hand.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel-writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding—joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
