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Definition of Insipid
1. Adjective. Lacking taste or flavor or tang. "Vapid tea"
Similar to: Tasteless
Derivative terms: Blandness, Flatness, Flavorlessness, Flavourlessness, Insipidity, Insipidness, Savorlessness, Savourlessness
2. Adjective. Lacking interest or significance or impact. "Jejune novel"
Definition of Insipid
1. a. Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food.
Definition of Insipid
1. Adjective. Unappetizingly flavorless. ¹
2. Adjective. Flat; lacking character or definition. ¹
3. Adjective. Cloyingly sweet or sentimental. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Insipid
1. dull and uninteresting [adj]
Medical Definition of Insipid
1. 1. Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food. 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) Synonym: Tasteless, vapid, dull, spiritless, unanimated, lifeless, flat, stale, pointless, uninteresting. Origin: L. Insipidus; pref. In- not + sapidus savory, fr. Sapere to taste: cf. F. Insipide. See Savor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insipid
Literary usage of Insipid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"(German and Danish, dumm, heavy, dull, insipid ; dumpling, a heavy, insipid
pudding ; dump», heavy, stupid morose- ness. ..."
2. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Jesuits, Reuben Gold Thwaites (1901)
"Nutmegs: odor of, insipid to Indians, 44, 279; Hospital nuns ask for, 49, 2o7,
51, 113, 53, 1o9; ..."
3. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"And that insipid stuff which here you ) Might somewhere else be call'da grave I
PROLOGUE SPOKEN BY MR. BETTERTON, REPRESENTING THE GHOST OF SHAKESPEARE SEE, ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"1348), who was influenced by French and Provençal models, is the author of two
somewhat insipid allegorical didactic poems. A higher note is struck by the ..."
5. Curiosities of the American Stage by Laurence Hutton (1890)
"insipid exhibition." Friday, in coffee-colored tights and blackened face, was
naturally a prominent figure. The pantomime was produced at the Theatre Royal, ..."
6. The Works of Hannah More by Hannah More (1830)
"Can these happy, useful, young creatures be my little, inactive, insipid Astons,
Charles ? ... insipid ..."
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