insipidity

insipidity
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Lack of taste or interest
Nouns — insipidity, vapidity; tastelessness, weakness; dullness, mediocrity, indifference.
Adjectives
1. (lacking taste) insipid, tasteless, flavorless, savorless, unseasoned, zestless; weak, stale, flat, mild, bland; milk-and-water, watery.
2. (lacking interest) uninteresting, unentertaining, prosaic, prosy, jejune, tame, dull, dry; vapid, flat, banal; mawkish, wishy-washy; spiritless, lack-lustrous, pointless, lifeless, amort, dead.
Quotations — There is nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! (Fanny Burney).
Antonyms, see taste, pungency.
II
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The state or quality of being insipid: blandness, innocuousness, insipidness, jejuneness, vapidity, vapidness, washiness, wateriness. Informal: wishy-washiness. See EXCITE, TASTE. 2. A lack of excitement, liveliness, or interest: asepticism, blandness, colorlessness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, dullness, flatness, flavorlessness, insipidness, jejuneness, lifelessness, sterileness, sterility, stodginess, vapidity, vapidness, weariness. See EXCITE.

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  • insipidity — c.1600, from INSIPID (Cf. insipid) + ITY (Cf. ity) …   Etymology dictionary

  • Insipidity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Insipidity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 insipidity insipidity blandness Sgm: N 1 tastelessness tastelessness &c. >Adj. PARAG:Insipidity >V GRP: V 1 Sgm: V 1 be tasteless be tasteless &c. >Adj …   English dictionary for students

  • insipidity — insipid ► ADJECTIVE 1) lacking flavour. 2) lacking vigour or interest. DERIVATIVES insipidity noun insipidly adverb insipidness noun. ORIGIN Latin insipidus, from in not + sapidus tasty, savoury …   English terms dictionary

  • insipidity — noun see insipid …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • insipidity — See insipid. * * * …   Universalium

  • insipidity — noun a) The condition of being insipid; insipidness. b) An insipid utterance. Syn: insipidness …   Wiktionary

  • insipidity — in·si·pid·i·ty || ‚ɪnsɪ pɪdÉ™tɪ n. lack of flavor, blandness; lifelessness, dullness, lack of interest …   English contemporary dictionary

  • insipidity — n.; (also insipidness) 1. Tastelessness, vapidness mawkishness, unsavoriness, staleness, flatness, lack of zest. 2. Dulness, lifelessness, stupidity, tameness, prosiness, heaviness, lack of interest, uninteresting character …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • insipidity — n 1. flatness, uninterestingness, jejuneness, jejunity, colorlessness, inexpressiveness, unimagi nativeness, lack of imagination or expression, insipidness; lifelessness, saplessness, spiritlessness, zestlessness, lack of vitality or animation,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

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