| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Lacking an appetizing flavor: flat, flavorless, insipid, tasteless, unsavory. See TASTE. 2. Lacking the qualities requisite for spiritedness and originality: innocuous, insipid, jejune, namby-pamby, vapid, washy, waterish, watery. Informal : wishy-washy. See EXCITE, GOOD. 3. Without definite or distinctive characteristics: colorless, indistinctive, neutral. See STRONG. 4. Effortlessly gracious and tactful in social manner: smooth, suave, urbane. See STYLE.
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