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VAPID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vapid mean?
• VAPID (adjective)
The adjective VAPID has 2 senses:
1. lacking taste or flavor or tang
2. lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
Familiarity information: VAPID used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking taste or flavor or tang
Synonyms:
bland; flat; flavorless; flavourless; insipid; savorless; savourless; vapid
Context example:
vapid tea
Similar:
tasteless (lacking flavor)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
Context example:
a bunch of vapid schoolgirls
Similar:
unexciting; unstimulating (not stimulating)
Derivation:
vapidity; vapidness (the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated)
Context examples
The other members of the household, viz., John and his wife, Leah the housemaid, and Sophie the French nurse, were decent people; but in no respect remarkable; with Sophie I used to talk French, and sometimes I asked her questions about her native country; but she was not of a descriptive or narrative turn, and generally gave such vapid and confused answers as were calculated rather to check than encourage inquiry.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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