Sunday, March 17, 2019

Word of the Week 3/17/19: Insipid

From Wiktionary:
Unappetizingly flavorless.
Flat; lacking character or definition.
Cloyingly sweet or sentimental.

From Vocabulary.com:
1. lacking interest or significance or impact
2. lacking taste or flavor or tang

Insipid comes from the Latin insipidus, the opposite of sapidus which means flavorful. The most common use of the word is in a metaphorical sense for dull or flat.


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