vapid
[vap-id]
- lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor; insipid; flat: vapid tea.
- without liveliness or spirit; dull or tedious: a vapid party; vapid conversation.
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Origin of vapid
Synonyms
See more synonyms for vapid on Thesaurus.com1. lifeless, flavorless. 2. spiritless, unanimated, tiresome, prosaic.
Antonyms
1. pungent. 2. stimulating.
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Examples from the Web for vapid
Contemporary Examples
By now, you would think that journalists should have tired of giving their vapid ideas yet another platform.
She is too vapid and immature (and untalented) to pull off something really seductive.
Grand language wrapped around a thin message produces only vapid blather.
You pretty much can't get a better absurdist parody of politicians' vapid sure-is-nice-to-be-here patter than that.
This had, she noted correctly, transformed those hearings into “a vapid and hollow charade.”
Historical Examples
No; the tame and vapid acquiescents are not to be found in literature.
Mountain MeditationsL. Lind-af-Hageby
He was born to the camp, and not to the vapid air of courts.
Love-at-ArmsRaphael Sabatini
And what a number of vapid and tasteless jokes would it provoke!
Tony ButlerCharles James Lever
Some vapid, frivolous, and would-be fashionable, but all full of kindly motive.
Under FireCharles King
Do they take me for so vapid a little fool that I may be compelled to any course they choose?
Margaret TudorAnnie T. Colcock
vapid
- bereft of strength, sharpness, flavour, etc; flat
- boring or dull; lifelessvapid talk
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Word Origin
C17: from Latin vapidus; related to vappa tasteless or flat wine, and perhaps to vapor warmth
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Word Origin and History for vapid
adj.
1650s, "flat, insipid" (of drinks), from Latin vapidus "flat, insipid," literally "that has exhaled its vapor," related to vappa "stale wine," and probably to vapor "vapor." Applied from 1758 to talk and writing deemed dull and lifeless. Related: Vapidly.
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