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vapid [ vap -id ] SHOW IPA
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adjective
without liveliness or spirit; dull or tedious: a vapid party; vapid conversation.
lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor; insipid ; flat : vapid tea.
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Origin of vapid 1650–60; from Latin
vapidus; akin to
vapor
OTHER WORDS FROM vapid va·pid·i·ty, vap·id·ness, noun vap·id·ly, adverb
Words nearby vapid Van Zeeland ,
Vanzetti ,
vape ,
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Vaphio ,
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vapor barrier ,
vaporescence ,
vaporetto ,
vaporific
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Words related to vapid boring ,
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nowhere
How to use vapid in a sentence The hosts, played by Cate Blanchett and Tyler Perry, are vapid and uninterested.
The film paints most of these characters as vultures of the art world, often using the high-flown linguistic semantics of academia and artistic discourse to obfuscate the vapid nature of the work they’re doing.
To risk a truly vapid cliché, California contains multitudes.
Because instead of equality, health care, peace, safety and support, Mother’s Day had become an occasion for vapid expressions of “love and reverence,” increasingly characterized by flowers, brunch and store-bought cards.
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.
Was it tough to make these inherently vapid , Valley Girl-ish characters be compelling onscreen?
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.
The water, too, had become very mawkish and vapid , and there was scarcely any tea left; what remained was used up that evening.
He picked up his "Enquirer," but the political news was stale and vapid : the "Whig" was tried with no better success.
There is no gilt, no mock modesty in his style; there is to vapid sentimentalism in the ideas he expounds.
I would not barter one hour of such thoughts—chimerical though they may be—for ten years of this vapid , surface life.
For the first time he did not admire it very much; for the first time he found it a trifle soulless and vapid .
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British Dictionary definitions for vapid
adjective
bereft of strength, sharpness, flavour, etc; flat
boring or dull; lifeless vapid talk
Derived forms of vapid vapidity , noun vapidly , adverb vapidness , noun Word Origin for vapid C17: from Latin vapidus; related to vappa tasteless or flat wine, and perhaps to vapor warmth
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