Synonyms for insipid
ɪnˈsɪp ɪdin·sipid

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1. insipidadjective

   Synonyms:
   boring, dull, vacuous, juvenile, tasteless, corny, colorless, characterless, vapid, fatuous, bland, colourless

2. insipidadjective

   Unappetizingly flavorless.

   The diners were disappointed with the plain, insipid soup they were served.

   Synonyms:
   dull, fatuous, boring, vapid, corny, characterless, juvenile, bland, tasteless, vacuous, colorless, colourless

3. insipidadjective

   Flat; lacking character or definition.

   The textbook had a most insipid presentation of the controversy.

   Synonyms:
   colourless, dull, corny, juvenile, fatuous, characterless, vapid, bland, colorless, boring, tasteless, vacuous

4. insipidadjective

   Cloyingly sweet or sentimental.

   Greeting cards contain some of the the most insipid words ever written.

   Synonyms:
   vapid, tasteless, corny, characterless, colourless, juvenile, vacuous, bland, colorless, dull, boring, fatuous

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1. insipid

   Synonyms:
   cold, dull, flat, flavorless, prosy, stale, stupid, tasteless, vapid

   Antonyms:
   flavorous, forcible, lively, piquant, pungent, racy, rich, spicy, spirited

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1. insipid

   Synonyms:
   tasteless, vapid, uninteresting, characterless, flavorless, flat, insulse, lifeless, prosy, stupid

   Antonyms:
   tasty, sapid, relishing, racy, interesting, engaging

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapidadjective

   lacking taste or flavor or tang

   "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"

   Synonyms:
   plane, smooth, two-dimensional, flavorless, categoric, matt, savourless, jejune, level, monotonic, compressed, unconditional, matted, suave, vapid, categorical, monotonous, prostrate, matte, monotone, savorless, flat, bland, mat, flavourless, politic

   Antonyms:
   tasty, interesting

2. insipid, jejuneadjective

   lacking interest or significance or impact

   "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel"

   Synonyms:
   bland, insubstantial, savourless, flat, flavorless, savorless, juvenile, flavourless, vapid, jejune, puerile, adolescent

   Antonyms:
   interesting, tasty

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1. insipidadjective

   Synonyms:
   tasteless, gustless, savorless, vapid, mawkish, stale, flat

2. insipidadjective

   Synonyms:
   spiritless, lifeless, heavy, stupid, dull, frigid, tame, prosaic, prosy, uninteresting, unentertaining

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1. List of paraphrases for "insipid":

   vapid, tasteless, watered-down, bland, innocuous

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How to use insipid in a sentence?

1. Anita Loos:

   Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

2. William James:

   A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.

3. Harriet Beecher Stowe:

   To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

4. Miguel Cervantes:

   I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

5. Friedrich Nietzsche:

   At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.