vapid
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Etymology[edit]
From Latin vapidus (“flat or vapid”).
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Adjective[edit]
vapid (comparative more vapid, superlative most vapid)
- Lifeless, dull or banal.
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, page 30 (ISBN 1857150570)
- Then there was a little more trite conversation between Mr. Arabin and Mr. Harding; trite, and hard, and vapid, and senseless.
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, page 30 (ISBN 1857150570)
- Tasteless, bland, or insipid.
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lifeless, dull, or banal
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tasteless, bland, or insipid