Vocabulary Word
Word: insipid
Definition: lacking in flavor; lacking interest; dull; Ex. insipid food/character
Definition: lacking in flavor; lacking interest; dull; Ex. insipid food/character
Sentences Containing 'insipid'
She was not of so ungovernable a temper as Lydia; and, removed from the influence of Lydia's example, she became, by proper attention and management, less irritable, less ignorant, and less insipid.
He had written a mediocre specimen of an insipid class of romance, and some plays which manifestly did not comply with the primary condition of pleasing: were the playgoers to patronise plays that did not amuse them, because the author was to produce "Don Quixote" twenty years afterwards?
It was at first a very insipid diet, though common enough in many parts of Europe, but grew tolerable by time; and having been often reduced to hard fare in my life, this was not the first experiment I had made how easily nature is satisfied.
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::: derivation - deriving; origin or source of something; Ex. the derivation of the word
::: attenuate - make thin; weaken
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