adj
Meaning 1
Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
vapid
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK, US: /ˈvæp.ɪd/
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UK, US: /ˈveɪp.ɪd/
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adj
Meaning 2
Lifeless, dull, or banal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pedestrian, tedious, banal, basic, beat, blah, commonplace, bland, boring, cold, colourless, corny, drab, stuffy, dreich, drowsy, dull, dull as dishwater, flat, heavy going, ho-hum, humdrum, insipid, lackluster, lame, languid, lifeless, longsome, monotonous, mundane, no fun at parties, plain, plodding, prosaic, prosy, pedantic, static, straightforward, snoozeworthy, soporific, uncool, wan, weaksauce, wooden, uninteresting, stodgy, vapid, vanilla, dormitive, hypnic, hypnotic, slumberous, somniferous, somnific, somnolent, soporiferous, soporous, stupefacient, stupefactive, tranquilizing, drippy, drudgerous, irksome, torporific, wearing, tiresome, wearisome
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Tasteless, bland, or insipid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: flavorless, savorless, wearish, bland, cardboard, flaggy, ingustible, intastable, insipid, tame, gustless, sapidless, mawkish, smackless, tasteless, unsavory, untasteable, vapid, wallowish, watery, waugh, wersh
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
An acronym for remembering undesirable characteristics for goal-setting: vague, amorphous, pie-in-the-sky, irrelevant, delayed/disassociated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: mnemonic, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a vapid conversation
- a vapid smile
- a bunch of vapid schoolgirls
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
lacking taste or flavor or tang
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a bland diet
- insipid hospital food
- flavorless supermarket tomatoes
- vapid beer
- vapid tea
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin vapor Proto-Indo-European *dheh1-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin vapidusbor. English vapid Borrowed from Latin vapidus (“flat, vapid”).
Across languages
Translations
84 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: банален (banalen) — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Bulgarian: изтъркан (iztǎrkan) — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Czech: vyčpělý — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Czech: nezajímavý — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Czech: nezáživný — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Faroese: einkisigandi — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Finnish: mitäänsanomaton — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Finnish: mielenkiinnoton — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Finnish: tympeä — lifeless, dull, or banal
- French: amorphe — lifeless, dull, or banal
- French: inintéressant — lifeless, dull, or banal
- French: insignifiant — lifeless, dull, or banal
- French: niais — lifeless, dull, or banal
- French: gourde — lifeless, dull, or banal
- French: terne — lifeless, dull, or banal
- French: bête — lifeless, dull, or banal
- French: couillon — lifeless, dull, or banal
- French: cucul — lifeless, dull, or banal
- French: cucul-la-praline — lifeless, dull, or banal
- French: mièvre — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Georgian: უშინაარსო (ušinaarso) — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Georgian: მოსაწყენი (mosac̣q̇eni) — lifeless, dull, or banal
- German: nichtssagend — lifeless, dull, or banal
- German: geistlos — lifeless, dull, or banal
- German: flach — lifeless, dull, or banal
- German: kraftlos — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Italian: insulso — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Italian: scialbo — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Italian: banale — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Italian: insignificante — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Plautdietsch: fleiw — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Polish: bezbarwny — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Portuguese: insoso — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Portuguese: insosso — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Portuguese: banal — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Romanian: banal — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Romanian: plictisitor — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Romanian: anost — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Romanian: nesemnificativ — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Russian: ску́чный (skúčnyj) — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Serbo-Croatian: isprazan — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Serbo-Croatian: beznačajan — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Serbo-Croatian: banalan — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Serbo-Croatian: bezvezan — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Spanish: soso — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Spanish: insulso — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Swedish: andefattig — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Swedish: tråkig — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Walloon: tantaloye — lifeless, dull, or banal
- Bulgarian: блудкав (bludkav) — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Bulgarian: безвкусен (bezvkusen) — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Czech: nevýrazný — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Czech: mdlý — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Czech: nemastný neslaný — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Czech: nezajímavý — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Finnish: mitäänsanomaton — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Finnish: valju — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- French: insipide — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- French: plat — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- French: fade — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- French: fadasse — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Georgian: უგემოვნო (ugemovno) — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- German: fad — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- German: schal — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- German: flach — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Ido: insipida — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Italian: insipido — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Italian: scialbo — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Italian: scipito — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Persian: لیوه (live) — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Plautdietsch: fleiw — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Polish: beztreściowy — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Polish: beztreściwy — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Portuguese: insípido — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Romanian: insipid — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Romanian: fad — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Russian: безвку́сный (bezvkúsnyj) — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Serbo-Croatian: bezukusan — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Serbo-Croatian: bljutav — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Serbo-Croatian: neukusan — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Sicilian: dissàpitu — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Spanish: soso — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Spanish: insulso — tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Swedish: fadd — tasteless, bland, or insipid