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vapid
/ˈvæp.ɪd/
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What does vapid mean?
adjective
- Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.
- Lifeless, dull, or banal.
- Tasteless, bland, or insipid.
More meanings (1)
adjective
- An acronym for remembering undesirable characteristics for goal-setting: vague, amorphous, pie-in-the-sky, irrelevant, delayed/disassociated.
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Five years after her mother's death she was florid, vapid, and weighed one hundred and sixty-eight miserable pounds.
Seed-fruits, such as strawberries, come very vapid in four or five hours after they have been picked, if they were then quite ripe.
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With the important item of practicability fully demonstrated, "Come, take a trip in my airship," will have more real significance than now attaches to the vapid warblings of the vaudeville vocalist.
But, surrounded by the vapid jealousies of the most useless people who had ever tried to rule a country, he, no more than his father, had the faintest chance to show the Conde quality in war.
Aside from the question of morals, and the absolutely demoralizing manner of treating social questions, most of their stories are vapid and weak beyond expression, and are slovenly in composition, showing neither study, training, nor mental discipline.