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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective vapid has 2 senses
- vapid(s = adj.all) bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless - lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"
- vapid(s = adj.all) Array - lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest; "a vapid conversation"; "a vapid smile"; "a bunch of vapid schoolgirls" Derived forms noun vapidity1, noun vapidness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
vapid, a. [L. vapidus having lost its life and spirit, vapid; akin to vappa vapid wine, vapor vapor. See Vapor.].
Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a vapid state of the blood. [1913 Webster]
"A cheap, bloodless reformation, a guiltless liberty, appear flat and vapid to their taste."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
vapid, adj. insipid; lacking interest; flat, dull (vapid moralizing).
Derivative
vapidity n. vapidly adv. vapidness n.
Etymology
L vapidus
THESAURUS
vapid
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, spiceless, spiritless, stale, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, superficial, tame, tasteless, tedious, thin, tiresome, tolerable, trifling, trite, trivial, 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, woodenROGET THESAURUS
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Feebleness
N feebleness, feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid, colorless, enervated, proposing, prosy, prosaic, unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy- washy, sketchy, slight, careless, slovenly, loose, lax (negligent), slipshod, slipslop, inexact, puerile, childish, flatulent, rambling.Dullness
N dullness, heaviness, flatness, infestivity &c, stupidity want of originality, dearth of ideas, prose, matter of fact, heavy book, conte a dormir debout, platitude, dull, dull as ditch water, unentertaining, uninteresting, flat, dry as dust, unfunny, unlively, logy, unimaginative, insulse, dry as dust, prosy, prosing, prosaic, matter of fact, commonplace, pedestrian, pointless, weary stale flat and unprofitable, stupid, slow, flat, insipid, vapid, humdrum, monotonous, melancholic, stolid plodding, boring, tiresome, tedious, davus sum non Aedipus, deadly dull and boring, DDB.Insipidity
N insipidity, blandness, tastelessness, bland, void of taste, insipid, tasteless, gustless, savorless, ingustible, mawkish, milk and water, weak, stale, flat, vapid, fade, wishy-washy, mild, untasted.
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