insipid : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: insipid	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for insipid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
insipid adj lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" Synonym(s): bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid lacking interest or significance or impact; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel" Synonym(s): insipid, jejune
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Insipid \Insip"id\, a. [L. insipidus; pref. in- not + sapidus savory, fr. sapere to taste: cf. F. insipide. See {Savor}.] 1. Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid* drink or food. --Boyle. 2. Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an insipid composition. Flat, insipid, and ridiculous stuff to him. --South. 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.