Definition of Vapid

1. Adjective. Lacking taste or flavor or tang. "Vapid tea"


2. Adjective. Lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest. "A bunch of vapid schoolgirls"
Similar to: Unexciting, Unstimulating
Derivative terms: Vapidity, Vapidness

Definition of Vapid

1. a. Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a vapid state of the blood.

2. a. Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a vapid state of the blood.

Definition of Vapid

1. insipid [adj] : VAPIDLY [adv] - See also: insipid

Medical Definition of Vapid

1. Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a vapid state of the blood. "A cheap, bloodless reformation, a guiltless liberty, appear flat and vapid to their taste." (Burke) Vap"idly, Vap"idness. Origin: L. Vapidus having lost its lire and spirit, vapid; akin to vappa vapid wine, vapor vapor. See Vapor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Vapid

Van de Graaff generator
van de Velde
Van Doren
Van Dyck
van Ermengen's stain
van Eyck
van Gieson's stain
van Gogh
van Helmont's mirror
van Horne's canal
Van Slyke's formula
Van Slyke apparatus
Van Vleck
Van Wyck Brooks
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