INSIPID Copy link • INSIPIDPROPR.; with reference to taste; nihil sapiens (having no taste, tasteless; ☞ insipidus only very late): non conditus (unseasoned, not made palateable by seasoning; ☞ not inconditus): voluptate carens (affording no pleasure or enjoyment). To be insipid, nihil sapere; sapore carere; voluptate carere. Wanting raciness, etc., insulsus: inficetus (having no poignancy of wit, spirit, etc.): absurdus (that does not ring, as it were; gives no sound). (The words are found in this connection and order.) ineptus et absurdus: *qui nullum habet succum neque sanguinem (after succus ille et sanguis... oratorum fuit, Cic., Brut., 9, 36; habeat tamen succum aliquem oportet, etc.).