All 3 Uses of
insipid
in
A Passage to India
- He was presently observed trailing yellowish behind the trees, or against insipid sky, and touching the bodies already at work in the fields.†
Chpt 14
- Her deity returned a consoling reply, but the touch of her hands on her face started prickly heat, and she seemed to swallow and expectorate the same insipid clot of air that had weighed on her lungs all the night.†
Chpt 24
- Though the vision was over, and she had returned to the insipidity of the world, she remembered what she had learnt.
Chpt 24 *insipidity = insignificance or lack of flavor
Definition:
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(insipid) dull (uninteresting and unimpactful)