Insipid
adjective
Lacking flavor, tasteless.
The soup was somewhat insipid, it could have used more spices.
Often appears as...
- insipid soup
- insipid taste
adjective
Not interesting or exciting, dull.
His lecture was so insipid that many students fell asleep.
Often appears as...
- insipid lecture
- insipid conversation
Usage tips
Disapproving
Academic
adjective
Lacking flavor, tasteless.
The soup was somewhat insipid, it could have used more spices.
Often appears as...
- insipid soup
- insipid taste
adjective
Not interesting or exciting, dull.
His lecture was so insipid that many students fell asleep.
Often appears as...
- insipid lecture
- insipid conversation
Usage tips
Disapproving
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Beyond Taste
When describing food, 'insipid' implies it's so lacking in flavor it doesn't stimulate the senses. Not just mildly bland.
Even with salt, the insipid stew failed to please our palates.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Insipid' often carries a negative feeling, suggesting disappointment or dissatisfaction with a lack of taste.
The chef's new recipe was sadly insipid, falling below everyone's expectations.
Pro Tip 3/3Mildly Polite Criticism
Use 'insipid' to diplomatically criticize food when you want to be kinder than saying 'bad' or 'awful'.
Your cake is a bit insipid, but I appreciate the effort you put into baking it.
Pro Tip 1/3Beyond Taste
When describing food, 'insipid' implies it's so lacking in flavor it doesn't stimulate the senses. Not just mildly bland.
Even with salt, the insipid stew failed to please our palates.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Insipid' often carries a negative feeling, suggesting disappointment or dissatisfaction with a lack of taste.
The chef's new recipe was sadly insipid, falling below everyone's expectations.
Pro Tip 3/3Mildly Polite Criticism
Use 'insipid' to diplomatically criticize food when you want to be kinder than saying 'bad' or 'awful'.
Your cake is a bit insipid, but I appreciate the effort you put into baking it.
Pro Tip 1/3Beyond Taste
When describing food, 'insipid' implies it's so lacking in flavor it doesn't stimulate the senses. Not just mildly bland.
Even with salt, the insipid stew failed to please our palates.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Insipid' often carries a negative feeling, suggesting disappointment or dissatisfaction with a lack of taste.
The chef's new recipe was sadly insipid, falling below everyone's expectations.
Pro Tip 3/3Mildly Polite Criticism
Use 'insipid' to diplomatically criticize food when you want to be kinder than saying 'bad' or 'awful'.
Your cake is a bit insipid, but I appreciate the effort you put into baking it.
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Quote examples
Michael Leunig
Australian Cartoonist
An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
English Novelist
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
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Maira Kalman
American Author
In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish Novelist
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.
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Karl Marx
German Philosopher
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
French Lawyer
Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.
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William Congreve
English Poet
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
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Logan Pearsall Smith
American Writer
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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Anita Loos
American Writer
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
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Michael Leunig
Australian Cartoonist
An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.
Quote examples
William Makepeace Thackeray
English Novelist
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
Quote examples
Maira Kalman
American Author
In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish Novelist
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.
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Karl Marx
German Philosopher
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
French Lawyer
Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.
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William Congreve
English Poet
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
Quote examples
Logan Pearsall Smith
American Writer
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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Anita Loos
American Writer
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
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