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vapid - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull.
- adjective Lacking taste, zest, or flavor; flat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- That has lost its life and spirit; insipid; dead; flat.
- Dull; spiritless; destitute of animation; insipid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Lifeless ,dull orbanal . - adjective
Tasteless ,bland , orinsipid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking taste or flavor or tang
- adjective lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin vapidus.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Latin vapidus ("flat or vapid").
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Examples
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John Mariani, a longtime wine and food writer, predicts a rise in vapid wine blogs.
Imperfect storage, blogging, new critics, Johnny Apple – sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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Sure, Ann Coulter has proven that being shrill and vapid is no serious barrier to success, but Coulter is at least sporadically witty and entertaining — she can turn a phrase, whether or not she uses it to say much of anything.
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Locale: Staging and dressing together constitute locale and their absence will render it "vague" or "vapid" -- though a writer might, of course, pare away the requisite details deliberately, in the same way they might pare away features distinguishing voice.
Archive 2009-12-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Locale: Staging and dressing together constitute locale and their absence will render it "vague" or "vapid" -- though a writer might, of course, pare away the requisite details deliberately, in the same way they might pare away features distinguishing voice.
Notes on Worldscape Hal Duncan 2009
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I vaguely recall a vapid amicus brief or two urging that the Supreme Court grant cert in a case because some lawprofs cared about it.
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She abandons her son for what can only be called a vapid frat boy.
Who Cares Who Is John Galt? Roger Sutton 2007
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Los Angeles has long been known as a vapid cultural wasteland.
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Likened to bimbos, or called vapid, or whatever else?
Renegade Evolution 2009
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From the moment George Bush coined his vapid "compassionate conservatism" rhetoric during the 2000 campaign, principled conservatives knew they were in trouble.
The Reality Check 2009
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From the moment George Bush coined his vapid "compassionate conservatism" rhetoric during the 2000 campaign, principled conservatives knew they were in trouble.
Related Words
synonyms (164)
Words with the same meaning
- airy
- arid
- asinine
- barren
- betwixt and between
- blah
- bland
- blank
- bloodless
- boring
- catchpenny
- changeable
- characterless
- cold
- colorless
- common
- commonplace
- dead
- dilute
- diluted
- dismal
- draggy
- drearisome
- dreary
- driveling
- dry
- dryasdust
- dull
- dusty
- effete
- elephantine
- empty
- empty-headed
- empty-minded
- empty-pated
- empty-skulled
- etiolated
- fade
- fair
- fair to middling
- fairish
- fatuous
- flat
- flavorless
- flimsy
- foolish
- fribble
- fribbling
- frivolous
- frothy
- futile
- gruelly
- halfhearted
- heavy
- ho-hum
- hollow
- humdrum
- idle
- inane
- indecisive
- indifferent
- inexcitable
- infirm of purpose
- infirm of will
- innocuous
- insipid
- irresolute
- jejune
- lackluster
- leaden
- lifeless
- light
- low-spirited
- matter-of-fact
- mediocre
- medium
- middling
- mild
- milk-and-water
- milky
- moderate
- modest
- mundane
- mushy
- namby-pamby
- neutral
- nugacious
- nugatory
- of a kind
- of a sort
- of sorts
- ordinary
- otiose
- pale
- pallid
- pappy
- passable
- pedestrian
- plain
- plodding
- poetryless
- pointless
- poky
- ponderous
- prosaic
- prosing
- prosy
- pulpy
- rattlebrained
- rattleheaded
- respectable
- sapless
- savorless
- scatterbrained
- shallow
- silly
- slender
- slight
- slow
- so-so
- solemn
- soporific
- spiceless
- spiritless
- stale
- sterile
- stiff
- stodgy
- stuffy
- superficial
- tame
- tasteless
- tedious
- thin
- tiresome
- tolerable
- trifling
- trite
- trivial
- unanimated
- unembellished
- unflavored
- unidealistic
- unimaginative
- unimpassioned
- uninteresting
- unlively
- unpalatable
- unpoetic
- unromantic
- unsavory
- vacant
- vacuous
- vain
- washy
- watered
- watered-down
- watery
- weak
- wearisome
- wearying
- windy
- wishy-washy
- wooden
senwick commented on the word vapid
Has a very intense angry sound and shape. Great insult.
Much like insipid.
November 3, 2008
mollusque commented on the word vapid
Seems flaccid as an insult.
November 3, 2008
dimã©lion commented on the word vapid
helpful word.
November 28, 2008