insipid

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   lacking interest or significance or impact

   An insipid personality.

Simplified etymology

Insipid comes from late Latin insipidus, formed from in-, meaning “not,” and sapidus, “savoury” or “delicious.” Sapidus in turn comes from sapere, “to taste.”

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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