- 3. Disrespectful or calumnious hint, suggestion, intimation, or innuendo.
Insipid, a.
- 1. Tasteless, gustless, savorless, vapid, mawkish, stale, flat.
- 2. Spiritless, lifeless, heavy, stupid, dull, frigid, tame, prosaic, prosy, uninteresting, unentertaining.
Insipidity, Insipidness, n.
- 1. Tastelessness, vapidness mawkishness, unsavoriness, staleness, flatness, lack of zest.
- 2. Dulness, lifelessness, stupidity, tameness, prosiness, heaviness, lack of interest, uninteresting character.
Insist on. Urge, press earnestly, persist in demanding, insist upon.
Insistence, n. Urging, urgency, importunity, solicitousness, persistent urgency.
Insist upon. See Insist on.
In situ. [L.]
- 1. (Min.) In the original position, as originally deposited or formed.
- 2. In its proper place.
Insnare, v. a. [Written also Ensnare.]
- 1. Entrap, catch.
- 2. Inveigle, allure, seduce.
- 3. Entangle, embarrass, perplex, confound, bewilder.
Insolate, v. a.
- 1. Expose to the rays of the sun.
- 2. Dry in the sun.
Insolation, n.
- 1. Exposure to the rays of the sun.