Vapid

adj

adj ·2 syllables ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.

    "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. 2
    An acronym for remembering undesirable characteristics for goal-setting: vague, amorphous, pie-in-the-sky, irrelevant, delayed/disassociated. mnemonic, not-comparable

    "One of the things that Paterson talks about is VAPID goals. He says that “VAPID goals are what we often set if we’re not thinking about it”."

  3. 3
    Lifeless, dull, or banal.

    "Then there was a little more trite conversation between Mr. Arabin and Mr. Harding; trite, and hard, and vapid, and senseless."

  4. 4
    Tasteless, bland, or insipid.
Adjective
  1. 1
    lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest wordnet
  2. 2
    lacking taste or flavor or tang wordnet

Synonyms

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banaldrowsyairyaridasininebanal

Example

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"What kind of vapid comments will I get on this sentence?"

Etymology

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

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