insipid Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective satellite lacking taste or flavor or tang
flat; vapid; flavorless; savorless; savourless; bland; flavourless.
- a bland diet
- insipid hospital food
- flavorless supermarket tomatoes
- vapid beer
- vapid tea
adjective satellite lacking interest or significance or impact
jejune.
- an insipid personality
- jejune novel

L. insipidus; pref. in- not + sapidus savory, fr. sapere to taste: cf. F. insipide. See Savor.

Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food. Boyle.
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.
Syn. -- Tasteless; vapid; dull; spiritless; unanimated; lifeless; flat; stale; pointless; uninteresting.