Insipidity

  • 91pungency — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Caustic nature Nouns 1. pungency, piquancy, poignancy, tang, raciness, haut goût, strong taste; sharpness, keenness, acrimony, acritude, acridity, astringency, acerbity, sourness, gaminess; tartness,… …

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  • 92shallowness — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of depth, superficiality Nouns 1. shallowness, shoalness, flatness; superficiality; inanity, folly; banality, insipidity, dullness, vapidity; ignorance; triviality, frivolity. See unimportance. 2.… …

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  • 93stale — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. passé; rancid, dried up, tasteless, insipid, flat, vapid; trite, dull, banal, old hat (inf.). See insipidity, weariness. Ant., fresh. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Old or musty] Syn. spoiled, dried,… …

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  • 94tame — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. tamed, domestic, domesticated; broken, subdued; meek, gentle; docile, tractable; dull, insipid; flat; spiritless, feeble. v. t. subdue, cow, break; harness; domesticate. See domestication,… …

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  • 95tasteless — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. insipid, flat; inelegant; inept, clumsy, vulgar, savorless, unappetizing. See insipidity, vulgarity, inelegance. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Lacking flavor] Syn. unsavory, dull, bland, unseasoned,… …

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  • 96thin — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. slender, lean, narrow (see narrowness); watery, weak, di luted; attenuated; faint, dim, threadlike; fine, delicate; poor, lame (as an excuse); flimsy, sheer, filmy. See rarity, weakness,… …

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  • 97unsavoriness — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Unpleasant taste Nouns unsavoriness, tastelessness, insipidity; unpalatableness, distaste fulness, roughness, acridity, acridness, acerbity, sourness; gall and wormwood. See dislike, discontent. Verbs be… …

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  • 98vapid — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. flat, tasteless, insipid; tame, spiritless, lifeless, dull. See insipidity. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. flat, insipid, boring; see dull 3 , 4 , uninteresting . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus)… …

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  • 99weariness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Exhaustion Nouns 1. weariness, tiredness, exhaustion, lethargy, lassitude, fatigue; drowsiness, languor, languidness; weakness, faintness. Slang, rack attack, three o clock syndrome. See dejection,… …

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  • 100wishy-washy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. washed out, anemic, colorless; weak kneed or willed, spineless, irresolute, feeble, vacillating. See insipidity, weakness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Watery] Syn. insipid, thin, diluted, weak,… …

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