Insipid
[ɪn'sɪpɪd]
解释:
(adj.) lacking interest or significance or impact; 'an insipid personality'; 'jejune novel' .
约翰校对--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food.
(a.) Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an insipid composition.
安琪编辑
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Tasteless, gustless, savorless, vapid, mawkish, stale, flat.[2]. Spiritless, lifeless, heavy, stupid, dull, frigid, tame, prosaic, prosy, uninteresting, unentertaining.
编辑:特伦斯
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Tasteless, vapid, uninteresting, characterless, flavorless, flat, insulse,lifeless, prosy, stupid
ANT:Tasty, sapid, relishing, racy, interesting, engaging
校对:南森
解释:
adj. tasteless: wanting spirit or animation: dull.—adv. Insip′idly.—ns. Insip′idness Insipid′ity want of taste.
手打:所罗门
例句:
- One never tired of seeing her: she was never monotonous, or insipid, or colourless, or flat. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- It is an insipid fruit at the best; but a good apricot is eatable, which none from my garden are. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- There was something insipid and tasteless to her, in the idea of a gentleman, a man who had gone the usual course through school and university. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- She seems good-natured but insipid, said Mrs. Rowdy; that Major seems to be particularly epris. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- If I _must_ give my opinion, I have always thought it the most insipid play in the English language. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- It is but insipid, barren work, talking and laughing with the good gentlefolks of Briarfield. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The eaters of the dinner, like the dinner itself, were lukewarm, insipid, overdone--and all owing to this poor little dull Young Barnacle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- She mortally hated work, and loved what she called pleasurebeing an insipid, heartless, brainless dissipation of time. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Ma,' whispered the other, who was much older than her sister, and very insipid and artificial, 'Lord Mutanhed has been introduced to me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
手打:所罗门