insipid
Something insipid is lacking in flavor or interest. You'll probably find the generic poems inside of greeting cards insipid.
Insipid comes from the Latin insipidus, the opposite of sapidus which means flavorful. Because spices and salts are left out, hospital food is usually considered insipid. The most common use of the word is in a metaphorical sense for dull or flat. You might think that your goody-two-shoes cousin is the most insipid girl you've ever met.
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lacking interest or significance or impact“an insipid personality”
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synonyms:
jejune
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uninteresting
arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement
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uninteresting
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lacking taste or flavor or tang“insipid hospital food”
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synonyms:
bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, savorless, savourless, vapid
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tasteless
lacking flavor
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tasteless
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All the words below have the prefix "in-" meaning "not," as their first element. The problem is that even though many of the words have negative senses in Modern English, their positive counterparts have fallen out of use, or existed only in Latin. These words may have been part of a pair, once upon a time, but their partners are no more. Through the illustrative sentences and the linguistic tidbits below, we have tried to make the history of these negative words with "in-" clearer and hopefully easier to remember.
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