Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Insipid

Definition of INSIPID

1: lacking taste or savor : tasteless <insipid food>
2: lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge : dull, flat <insipid prose>
 
 
in·si·pid·i·ty\ˌin-sə-ˈpi-də-tē\ noun
in·sip·id·ly\in-ˈsi-pəd-lē\ adverb
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Examples of INSIPID

  1. The soup was rather insipid.
  2. <an apple pie with a mushy, insipid filling that strongly resembled soggy cardboard>
  3. While it is fashionable to write off that decade as an insipid time, one long pajama party, the '50s, in sport at least, were a revolutionary age. —Frank Deford, Sports Illustrated, 27 Dec. 1999–31 Jan. 2000
Since I love stupid stuff....here is a sentence to help you remember the meaning of "insipid."


If you are a connoisseur of hot chocolate, don't use those little packets;  I mixed one up last night and it was so insipid that I could-n-sip-id. 


photo by DeathByBokeh


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