| Main Entry: | insipidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness |
Synonyms: |
aridity, asepticism, blandness, boredom, colorlessness, commonplaceness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, familiarity, flatness, flavorlessness, gentility, innocuousness, insipidness, jejuneness, lifelessness, mildness, monotomy, routine, sameness, slowness, staleness, sterileness, sterility, stodginess, tediousness, tedium, uninterestingness, vapidity, vapidness, weariness |
| Concept: | Insipidity. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; taste |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
insipidity, blandness; tastelessness
-verbs
be tasteless.
-adjectives
void of taste; insipid; tasteless, gustless, savorless; ingustible, mawkish, milk and water, weak, stale, flat, vapid, fade, wishy-washy, mild; untasted.
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Antonyms: |
taste |
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| Main Entry: | idiocy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | utter stupidity |
Synonyms: |
asininity, cretinism, derangement, fatuity, fatuousness, foolishness, imbecility, inanity, insanity, insipidity, lunacy, madness, senselessness, tomfoolery |
Antonyms: |
brains, intelligence |
| Main Entry: | jargon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | specialized language; dialect |
Synonyms: |
abracadabra, argot, balderdash, banality, bombast, bunk, buzzwords, cant, cliché, colloquialism, commonplace term, doublespeak, drivel, fustian, gibberish, hackneyed term, idiom, insipidity, lexicon, lingo, mumbo jumbo, neologism, newspeak, nonsense, overused term, palaver, parlance, patois, patter, rigmarole, shoptalk, slang, slanguage, speech, stale language, street talk, tongue, trite language, twaddle, usage, vernacular, vocabulary |
Antonyms: |
standard |
| Main Entry: | platitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dull, overused saying |
Synonyms: |
banality, boiler plate, bromide, buzzword, chestnut, cliché, commonplace, corn, evenness, familiar tune, flatness, hackneyed saying, high camp, hokum, inanity, insipidity, monotony, motto, old chestnut, old story, potboiler, prosaicism, proverb, saw, shibboleth, stereotype, tag*, trite remark, triteness, triviality, truism, vapidity, verbiage |
Antonyms: |
coinage, nuance |
| Main Entry: | dullness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | quality of being boring |
Synonyms: |
aridity, boredom, commonplaceness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, familiarity, flatness, insipidity, insipidness, lifelessness, monotomy, routine, sameness, slowness, staleness, tediousness, tedium, uninterestingness, vapidity |
Antonyms: |
action, interest, liveliness |
| Main Entry: | asepticism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness |
Synonyms: |
blandness, drabness, dreariness, flatness, flavorlessness, insipidity, insipidness, lifelessness, sterileness, sterility, vapidity, vapidness, weariness |
| Main Entry: | blandness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness |
Synonyms: |
boringness, colorlessness, drabness, dreariness, flatness, flavorlessness, innocuousness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, lifelessness, pallidness, uninterestingness, vapidity, vapidness |
| Main Entry: | drabness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness |
Synonyms: |
blandness, boringness, colorlessness, dinginess, dowdiness, dreariness, dryness, flatness, flavorlessness, gloominess, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, lifelessness, stodginess, vapidity, vapidness |
| Main Entry: | dreariness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gloominess |
Synonyms: |
blandness, boringness, colorlessness, depression, drabness, dryness, dullness, flatness, flavorlessness, forlornness, gloom, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, joylessness, lifelessness, melancholy, sadness, vapidity, vapidness |