adjective
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bereft of strength, sharpness, flavour, etc; flat
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boring or dull; lifeless
vapid talk
Other Word Forms
- vapidity noun
- vapidly adverb
- vapidness noun
Etymology
Origin of vapid
First recorded in 1650–60; from Latin vapidus; akin to vapor
Example Sentences
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"Someone can be vapid, have no depth and be on reality TV, but that doesn't mean that's true for every contestant," she adds.
From BBC
If this vapid, airless, mindless time-waster had subversive designs of being a satire about the first lady of the United States, there’s not much it would have changed.
From Los Angeles Times
For every thoughtful, interesting question asked of an artist on a red carpet or during a junket, there are three more vapid ones, and offenders almost always have a tiny microphone.
From Salon
“She wanted me to just be kind of vapid.”
At its worst, Orange County appears to be nouveau-riche snobbish, insecure, artificially flavored and colored, vapid, priggish and drearily sanitized.
From Los Angeles Times
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