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ADJECTIVE (2)

1. lacking taste or flavor or tang;
- Example: "a bland diet"
- Example: "insipid hospital food"
- Example: "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"
- Example: "vapid beer"
- Example: "vapid tea"
[syn: bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid]

2. lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest;
- Example: "a vapid conversation"
- Example: "a vapid smile"
- Example: "a bunch of vapid schoolgirls"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Vapid \Vap"id\ (v[a^]p"[i^]d), a. [L. vapidus having lost its
   life and spirit, vapid; akin to vappa vapid wine, vapor
   vapor. See Vapor.]
   Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid;
   flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a
   vapid state of the blood.
   [1913 Webster]

         A cheap, bloodless reformation, a guiltless liberty,
         appear flat and vapid to their taste.    --Burke.
   [1913 Webster] -- Vap"id*ly, adv. -- Vap"id*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

vapid
    adj 1: lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid
           hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid
           beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: bland, flat, flavorless,
           flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless,
           vapid]
    2: lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest; "a
       vapid conversation"; "a vapid smile"; "a bunch of vapid
       schoolgirls"