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
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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.
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