vapid

Borrowed from Latin vapidus (“flat, vapid”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈvæp.ɪd/, /ˈveɪp.ɪd/

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• Rhymes: -æpɪd

vapid (comparative more vapid, superlative most vapid)

1. 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 […]

2. 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.

3. Tasteless, bland, or insipid.

• See Thesaurus:boring, Thesaurus:wearisome, Thesaurus:soporific

• vapidity
• vapidly
• vapidness

• pavid

vapid

1. nominative plural of vapp