insulse

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin insulsus; prefix in- not + salsus salted, from salire, salsum, to salt.

Adjective

insulse (comparative more insulse, superlative most insulse)

1. (obsolete) insipid; dull; stupid
   • Milton

     An insulse and frigid affectation.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “insulse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Silenus

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Italian

Adjective

insulse

1. feminine plural of insulso

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) īnsulse

1. vocative masculine singular of īnsulsus

References

• “insulse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “insulse”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• insulse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.