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insipidity
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| 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 |
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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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
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