vapid
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin vapidus (“flat, vapid”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]vapid (comparative more vapid, superlative most vapid)
- Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.
- 1995, Steven Daly, Nathaniel Wice, “Koons, Jeff”, in alt.culture, New York: HarperPerennial, →ISBN:
- In Koons' best-known works—a life-sized poly-chromed wood replica of Michael Jackson and his pet chimp Bubbles; vapid fin de siècle readymades such as a trio of basketballs floating in a fishtank […]
- Lifeless, dull, or banal.
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, →ISBN, page 30:
- Then there was a little more trite conversation between Mr. Arabin and Mr. Harding; trite, and hard, and vapid, and senseless.
- Tasteless, bland, or insipid.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]lifeless, dull, or banal
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tasteless, bland, or insipid
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Anagrams
[edit]Estonian
[edit]Noun
[edit]vapid
- nominative plural of vapp
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