â¢ INSIPID (adjective). The adjective INSIPID has 4 senses: 1. lacking taste or flavor or tang. 2. lacking significance or impact. 3. lacking interest or significance. 4. not pleasing to the sense of taste. Familiarity information: INSIPID used as an adjective is uncommon. INSIPID (adjective). The adjective INSIPID has 4 senses: 1. lacking taste or flavor or tang. 2. lacking significance or impact. 3. lacking interest or significance. 4. not pleasing to the sense of taste. Familiarity information: INSIPID used as an adjective is uncommon.
This discussion has led some people to question if the Confederacy, and therefore the Civil War, was truly motivated by slavery. âBut there are other difficult truths. Among them, when the war began, it was not explicitly a war to end slavery.
As of November 1864, Confederate soldiers were fighting for a government whose president and other leaders were openly advocating emancipating slaves who would serve in the Confederate army and emancipating their families as well.