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Insipid

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Unappetizingly flavorless.

    "The diners were disappointed with the plain, insipid soup they were served."

  2. 2
    Flat; lacking character or definition.

    "The textbook had a most insipid presentation of the controversy."

Adjective
  1. 1
    lacking interest or significance or impact wordnet
  2. 2
    lacking taste or flavor or tang wordnet

Etymology

From French insipide, from Latin īnsipidus (“tasteless”), from in- (“not”) + sapidus (“savory”). In some senses, perhaps influenced by insipient (“unwise, foolish, stupid”).

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