English Explanatory Dictionary

vapid

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.
  2. Lifeless, dull, or banal.
  3. Tasteless, bland, or insipid.
adj
  1. An acronym for remembering undesirable characteristics for goal-setting: vague, amorphous, pie-in-the-sky, irrelevant, delayed/disassociated.

Pronunciation

/ˈvæp.ɪd/ /ˈveɪp.ɪd/ en-us-vapid.ogg

Word forms

vapid more vapid most vapid

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”).

Synonyms

pedestrian tedious banal basic beat blah 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

Antonyms

SMART

Derived words

vapidity vapidly vapidness
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