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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insipidity |
| Synonyms: | blandness, flatness, flavorlessness, innocuousness, insipidness, jejuneness, staleness, vapidity, vapidness, wateriness |
| Main Entry: | dullness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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and unprofitable, bluff, blunt, commonplace, dry as dust, dubby, dull, dull as ditch, flat, flat, hebetudinous, humdrum, inficete, insulse, matter of fact, melancholic, monotonous, obtundent, obtuse, plodding, pointless, prosaic, prosing, purblind, slow, snub, stale, stolid, stumpf, stupid, unasinous, unentertaining, unimaginative, uninteresting, unlively, vapid, weary
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| Concept: | Dullness. |
| Category: | 1. Passive Affections |
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-nouns
dullness, heaviness, flatness; infestivity, stupidity [more]; want of originality; dearth of ideas., prose, matter of fact; heavy book, conte a dormir debout; platitude.
-verbs
be dull; prose, take au serieux, be caught napping., render dull; damp, depress, throw cold water on, lay a wet blanket on; fall flat upon the ear.
-adjectives
dull, dull as ditch water; unentertaining, uninteresting, unlively, logy [U.S.]; unimaginative; insulse; dry as dust; prosy, prosing, prosaic; matter of fact, commonplace, pointless; "weary stale flat and unprofitable" [Hamlet]., stupid, slow, flat, humdrum, monotonous; melancholic; stolid; plodding.
-phrases
davus sum non Aedipus.
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| Antonyms: | wit |
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| Concept: | Flatness. |
| Category: | 3. Superficial form |
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-nouns
flatness; smoothness., plane; level; plate, platter, table, tablet, slab.
-verbs
render flat, flatten; level.
-adjectives
flat, plane, even, flush, scutiform, discoid; level (horizontal); flat as a pancake, flat as a fluke, flat as a flounder, flat as a board, flat as my hand.
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| Concept: | Insipidity. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; taste |
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insipidity, blandness; tastelessness
-verbs
be tasteless.
-adjectives
void of taste; insipid; tasteless, gustless, savorless; ingustible, mawkish, milk and water, weak, stale, flat, vapid, fade, wishy-washy, mild; untasted.
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| Antonyms: | taste |
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