Meaning of VAPID
| Pronunciation: | | 'vapid
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- [adj] lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"
- [adj] lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest; "a vapid conversation"; "a vapid smile"; "a bunch of vapid schoolgirls"
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| | Synonyms: | | bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, tasteless, unexciting, unstimulating |
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| | Definition: | | \Vap"id\, a. [L. vapidus having lost its lire 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.
A cheap, bloodless reformation, a guiltless liberty,
appear flat and vapid to their taste. --Burke.
-- {Vap"id*ly}, adv. -- {Vap"id*ness}, n.
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