Insipid
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

DRY
A reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages

4 letters

DULL
Make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"

TAME
Very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston Hughes

ARID
Lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross"

BLAH
Pompous or pretentious talk or writing

FLAT
A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

BARE
Lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"

COLD
The sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head"

DEAD
People who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"

FADE
Gradually ceasing to be visible

FAIR
A traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.

MILD
Mild and pleasant; "balmy days and nights"; "the climate was mild and conducive to life or growth"; "a soft breeze"

NULL
A quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"

PALE
Lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance"

POKY
A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)

SLOW
(of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"

SOSO

SOFT
(of sound) relatively low in volume; "soft voices"; "soft music"

THIN
Take off weight

VOID
Take away the legal force of or render ineffective; "invalidate a contract"

WEAK
Wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity"

TAME

5 letters

BEIGE

BLANK
A blank gap or missing part

CLEAR
A clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water; "finally broke out of the forest into the open"

DUSTY
Covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books"

EMPTY
A container that has been emptied; "return all empties to the store"

HEAVY
A serious (or tragic) role in a play

HOHUM

INAPT
Not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?"

MILKY
Resembling milk in color not clear; "milky glass"

MUSHY
Effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"

PAPPY

PLAIN
Express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about"

PROSY
Lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"

PULPY
Like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness

STALE
Urinate, of cattle and horses

STIFF
The dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

WASHY
Having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"

WHITE
(usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth

BANAL
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

VAPID
Lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest; "a vapid conversation"; "a vapid smile"; "a bunch of vapid schoolgirls"

INANE
Devoid of intelligence

BLAND
Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke"

6 letters

BORING
The act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum

JEJUNE
Lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very poor"

WATERY
Relating to or resembling or consisting of water; "a watery substance"; "a watery color"

BARREN
Providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"

COMMON
A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park"

DEVOID
Completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"

DILUTE
Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor"

DISMAL
Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

DRAGGY

DREARY
Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

EFFETE
Marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"

FEEBLE
Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"

HOLLOW
A cavity or space in something; "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks"

LEADEN
Lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation"

MEDIUM
An occupation for which you are especially well suited; "in law he found his true metier"

MODEST
Limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"

PALLID
Lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance"

SICKLY
Unhealthy looking

SLIGHT
A deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)

SOLEMN
Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"

STODGY
(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life"

STUFFY
Affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction; "a stuffy feeling in my chest"

STUPID
In a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock; "he had a dazed expression on his face"; "lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow"; "was stupid from fatigue"

SWASHY

VACANT
Void of thought or knowledge; "a vacant mind"

WOODEN
Made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood; "a wooden box"; "an ancient cart with wooden wheels"

ANEMIC

LIQUID

7 letters

MAUDLIN

NEBBISH

NOWHERE

DECAYED

SLURRED

GOSSIPY

NOTHING

DILUTED
Reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity; "diluted alcohol"; "a dilute solution"; "dilute acetic acid"

FAIRISH
Not excessive or extreme; "a fairish income"; "reasonable prices"

GRUELLY

HUMDRUM
The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"

INSIPID
Lacking interest or significance or impact; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel"

MUNDANE
Concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality"

NEUTRAL
One who does not side with any party in a war or dispute

OFAKIND

OFASORT

OFSORTS

PROSAIC
Lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"

PROSING

SAPLESS
Destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry; "the rats and roaches scurrying along the sapless planks"- Norman Mailer

STERILE
Incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple"

SUBDUED
Not brilliant or glaring; "the moon cast soft shadows"; "soft pastel colors"; "subdued lighting"

TEDIOUS
Using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes"

TENUOUS
Lacking substance or significance; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame"

VACUOUS
Void of expression; "a blank stare"

WATERED
(of silk fabric) having a wavelike pattern

8 letters

BLEACHED
(used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde"

BROMIDIC
Dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons"