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Insipid vs Flaggy - What's the difference?

insipid | flaggy |

As adjectives the difference between insipid and flaggy

is that insipid is unappetizingly flavorless while flaggy is hanging down; drooping, pendulous.

insipid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unappetizingly flavorless.
    • The diners were disappointed with the plain, insipid soup they were served.
  • Flat; lacking character or definition.
    • The textbook had a most insipid presentation of the controversy.
  • Cloyingly sweet or sentimental.
    • Greeting cards contain some of the most insipid words ever written.

    Synonyms

    * boring * wearish * corny * fatuous * juvenile * tasteless * vacuous * vapid * dull * bland * colourless, colorless * characterless

    Derived terms

    * insipidly * insipidness * insipidity

    Related terms

    * insipient

    flaggy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Hanging down; drooping, pendulous.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
    • His flaggy wings when forth he did display, / Were like two sayles, in which the hollow wynd / Is gathered full
  • (obsolete) tasteless; insipid
  • * Francis Bacon
    • a flaggy apple