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  • 61fade — [14] Fade comes from Old French fader, a derivative of the adjective fade ‘faded, vapid’. This in turn came from Vulgar Latin *fatidus, which probably represents an alteration of Latin fatuus ‘stupid, insipid’ (source of English fatuous [17])… …

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  • 62insipid — [in sip′id] adj. [< Fr & LL: Fr insipide < LL insipidus < L in , not + sapidus, savory < sapere, to taste: see SAPIENT] 1. without flavor; tasteless 2. not exciting or interesting; dull; lifeless insipidity n. pl. insipidities… …

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  • 63flavorless — adjective lacking taste or flavor or tang a bland diet insipid hospital food flavorless supermarket tomatoes vapid beer vapid tea • Syn: ↑bland, ↑flat, ↑ …

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  • 64flavourless — adjective lacking taste or flavor or tang a bland diet insipid hospital food flavorless supermarket tomatoes vapid beer vapid tea • Syn: ↑bland, ↑flat, ↑ …

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  • 65jejuneness — noun 1. lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life • Syn: ↑callowness, ↑juvenility • Derivationally related forms: ↑juvenile (for: ↑juvenility), ↑jejune …

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  • 66jejunity — noun 1. the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated • Syn: ↑jejuneness, ↑tameness, ↑vapidity, ↑vapidness • Derivationally related forms: ↑vapid (for: ↑vapidness), ↑ …

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  • 67savorless — adjective lacking taste or flavor or tang a bland diet insipid hospital food flavorless supermarket tomatoes vapid beer vapid tea • Syn: ↑bland, ↑flat, ↑ …

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  • 68savourless — adjective lacking taste or flavor or tang a bland diet insipid hospital food flavorless supermarket tomatoes vapid beer vapid tea • Syn: ↑bland, ↑flat, ↑ …

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  • 69tameness — noun 1. the attribute of having been domesticated • Syn: ↑domestication • Ant: ↑wildness • Derivationally related forms: ↑tame • Hypernyms: ↑tractability, ↑ …

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  • 70vapidity — noun the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated • Syn: ↑jejunity, ↑jejuneness, ↑tameness, ↑vapidness • Derivationally related forms: ↑vapid (for: ↑vapidness), ↑ …

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