Explore Insipid through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like bland or unappetizing. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Insipid meaning
- Unappetizingly flavorless.
- Flat; lacking character or definition.
Synonyms of Insipid
Using Insipid
- The main meaning on this page is: Unappetizingly flavorless. | Flat; lacking character or definition.
- Useful related words include: bland, unappetizing, uninteresting, jejune.
- In the example corpus, insipid often appears in combinations such as: the insipid, and insipid, of insipid.
Context around Insipid
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Insipid
- In this selection, "insipid" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, reliably, instead, wan, chancellor, affair and musical stand out and add context to how "insipid" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a rather insipid bureaucrat freedman and and the insipid response by. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "insipid" sits close to words such as aaf, aalen and abrogated, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with insipid
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But this argument is classically insipid and hollow. (8 words)
Toby, if you're shocked by —oh, Toby, you naive, insipid fuck! (12 words)
Most AI poetry is a series of insipid clichés arranged in rhyming quatrains. (13 words)
I can’t just be a normal rich asshole having a mid-life crisis who buys a third home or gets a mistress, I don’t have the self-awareness to just go away, so I’ll have to bore you all to death with my insipid blatherings in the media. (51 words)
The shocking uptake has shown that he tapped a nerve, but it's very much been aided by the pandemic/social media and so will continue until we pull the plug, or it's somehow stopped by the insipid political left, or someone gets killed. (45 words)
It is easy to intensely dislike someone like Stephen “cock-holster” Colbert for his foul disparagement of the president, or the insipid Jimmy Kimmel, for making his child’s illness all about his Trump Derangement Syndrome. (36 words)
Toby, if you're shocked by —oh, Toby, you naive, insipid fuck! (12 words)
Example sentences (20)
Germany’s reliably insipid chancellor, Olaf Scholz, won’t discuss Kyiv’s membership until the war is over.
Most AI poetry is a series of insipid clichés arranged in rhyming quatrains.
Their British counterparts, meanwhile, are repressed right down to their bones, joyless and insipid.
The opening half turned out to be an insipid affair as opponents contained their offensive plans to see the action mostly hovering around midfield.
These insipid musical theatre imitations are peppered throughout simply to give Fletcher alone (the original “Bad” Cinderella in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s doomed production) a chance to show off her undeniably strong voice.
Where they had been so aggressive and ebullient in narrow defeats to France and Ireland in the earlier rounds, Italy were instead insipid in a first half they would love to play again.
But, if Arendt made a huge splash in 1963, concluding that Eichmann was a rather insipid bureaucrat, Freedman isn’t looking to make a huge statement so much as to invite a nuanced discussion.
In fact, when Elisabeth arrives in a thunder of designer clothes, Jarle delegates the task to one of his junior teachers, the well-meaning but insipid Sunna (Thea Lambrechts Vaulen).
The shocking uptake has shown that he tapped a nerve, but it's very much been aided by the pandemic/social media and so will continue until we pull the plug, or it's somehow stopped by the insipid political left, or someone gets killed.
The torrent of dramatic political news that’s been inundating our screens in recent days has been jampacked with all manner of comments and commentary – insightful and idiotic, inspiring and insipid, patriotic and pathetically partisan.
But the real problem was the message, which was wan, insipid, derivative of what all the others were already saying, and devoid of any vision or verve.
I fear sir that if you became president of Zambia the insipid behavior of these two regions will come back.
It is easy to intensely dislike someone like Stephen “cock-holster” Colbert for his foul disparagement of the president, or the insipid Jimmy Kimmel, for making his child’s illness all about his Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Watching another insipid United away performance against a side below them in the table, Mauricio Pochettino’s aphorism about the cow came to mind.
But this argument is classically insipid and hollow.
I can’t just be a normal rich asshole having a mid-life crisis who buys a third home or gets a mistress, I don’t have the self-awareness to just go away, so I’ll have to bore you all to death with my insipid blatherings in the media.
Now, she makes me a huge batch of the insipid gruel every year.
The home side appeared the more deflated at the final whistle while Rangers could be satisfied that their insipid first half performance had not proved more damaging.
Toby, if you're shocked by —oh, Toby, you naive, insipid fuck!
Trump’s decision, and the insipid response by foreign capitals to India’s actions in Kashmir, are products of that.
Common combinations with insipid
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the insipid 6×
- and insipid 3×
- of insipid 2×
- an insipid 2×
- their insipid 2×
- that insipid 2×