insipid
adjective/ɪnˈsɪpɪd/
/ɪnˈsɪpɪd/
(disapproving)- having almost no taste synonym flavourless
- a cup of insipid coffee
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- not interesting or exciting synonym dull
- After an hour of insipid conversation, I left.
- The band are an insipid imitation of the Beatles.
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French insipide or late Latin insipidus, from in- ‘not’ + sapidus (from sapere ‘to taste’).
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