different between wearish vs insipid

English

Etymology

Possibly from weary + -ish.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w?????/

Adjective

wearish (comparative more wearish, superlative most wearish)

1. (obsolete) Tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid.
2. (obsolete or dialectal) Sickly, wizened, feeble.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:

     Who was to weet a wretched wearish elfe, / With hollow eyes and rawbone cheekes forspent […].

   • , New York Review Books, 2001, p.16:

     Democritus, as he is described by Hippocrates and Laertius, was a little wearish old man, very melancholy by nature, averse from company in his latter days, and much given to solitariness […].

Derived terms

• wearishness

Anagrams

• washier

English

Etymology

From French insipide, from Latin ?nsipidus (“tasteless”), from in- (“not”) + sapidus (“savory”). In some senses, perhaps influenced by insipient (“unwise, foolish, stupid”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?n?s?p.?d/

Adjective

insipid (comparative more insipid, superlative most insipid)

1. Unappetizingly flavorless.

   Synonyms: tasteless, bland, vapid, wearish

2. Flat; lacking character or definition.

   Synonyms: boring, vacuous, dull, bland, characterless, colourless

Derived terms

Related terms

• insipient

Translations

Further reading

• “insipid”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• insipid at OneLook Dictionary Search

Romanian

Etymology

From French insipide.

Adjective

insipid m or n (feminine singular insipid?, masculine plural insipizi, feminine and neuter plural insipide)

1. insipid, tasteless

Declension

Related terms

• insipiditate