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Insipid vs Ingrate - What's the difference?

insipid | ingrate |

As adjectives the difference between insipid and ingrate

is that insipid is insipid while ingrate is (obsolete|poetic) ungrateful.

As a noun ingrate is

an ungrateful person.

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

    ingrate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete, poetic) Ungrateful.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • Unpleasant, unfriendly

    • Quotations

    * 1590', Yet in his mind malitious and '''ingrate — Edmund Spenser, ''The Faerie Queene * 1596', But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer / As high in the air as this unthankful king, / As this '''ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke. — William Shakespeare, ''King Henry IV, Part 1 * 1671', Who, for so many benefits received, / Turned recreant to God, '''ingrate and false — John Milton, ''Paradise Regained

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ungrateful person.
  • * 1843', But Mr Pecksniff, dismissing all ephemeral considerations of social pleasure and enjoyment, concentrated his meditations on the one great virtuous purpose before him, of casting out that '''ingrate and deceiver, whose presence yet troubled his domestic hearth, and was a sacrilege upon the altars of his household gods. — Charles Dickens, ''Martin Chuzzlewit
  • * 1860–61': "Speak the truth, you '''ingrate !" cried Miss Havisham — Charles Dickens, ''Great Expectations
  • * 1893', Out of my sight, '''ingrate ! — W.S.Gilbert, ''Utopia Limited

    • Anagrams

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