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 vapidity
Contemporary Examples
It was a delicious, pointed response, skewering on the vapidity of asking such things, even if she didn't intend it to be.
Enjoy this video of New York Mag's Jonathan Chait explaining the vapidity of the "binders full of women" meme.
Historical Examples
The vapidity of a polite woman is bad, but the vapidity of a woman who is not polite is decidedly worse.
He never frittered away his moments in the vapidity of a polite ballroom.
Harvard StoriesWaldron Kintzing Post
The eminent criminal novel is taken as a tonic by minds satiated with the vapidity of fashionable fiction.
A History of English Prose FictionBayard Tuckerman
In four hours, vapidity and languor will take place of that exquisite sense of joy, which flutters your little heart.
The Belle's StratagemHannah Cowley
Imbecility, vapidity, and the commonplace distended themselves like the frog in the fable.
The Prose Writings of Heinrich HeineHeinrich Heine
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 vapidity
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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