insipidity

n. 无味, 清淡, 无生气

词形变化

insipidities 复数 insipidities

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The condition of being insipid; insipidness.

    不可数 可数

    1735, Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book I, Notes Variorum, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, Volume 2, London: Lawton Gilliver, p. 98, Nahum Tate was Poet Laureate, a cold writer, of no invention, but sometimes translated tolerably when befriended by Mr. Dryden. In his second part of Absalom and Achitophel are above two hundred admirable lines together of that great hand, which strongly shine through the insipidity of the rest.

  2. 2.

    Something that is insipid; an insipid utterance, sight, object, etc.

    可数 不可数

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

insipidness blandness boringness dreariness

上位词 3

dullness unappetisingness unappetizingness

词源

Borrowed from Medieval Latin īnsipiditās. By surface analysis, insipid + -ity.

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