Vapid

Definitions: Vapid

Vapid

Adjective

1. Lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea".

2. Lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest; "a vapid conversation"; "a vapid smile"; "a bunch of vapid schoolgirls".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "vapid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Vapid \Vap"id\, adjective. [Latin expression vapidus having lost its lire and spirit, vapid; akin to vappa vapid wine, vapor vapor. See Vapor.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Vapid

Dullness

Stupid, slow, flat, insipid, vapid, humdrum, monotonous; melancholic; stolid; plodding.

Feebleness

Adjective: feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight.

Insipidity

Adjective: bland, void of taste; insipid; tasteless, gustless, savorless; ingustible, mawkish, milk and water, weak, stale, flat, vapid, fade, wishy-washy, mild; untasted.

Crosswords: Vapid

Music

• Vapid Drivel (reference)

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They are either vapid or controversial.

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Albanian

i shpëlarë (emasculate, faded, homely, rinsed, wishy washy), i palezetshëm (ill-favored, ill-favoured, inurbane, trite, unagreeable, unbeseeming, uncomely, unpleasant, unseemly). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ممل (boring, dreary, dull, humdrum, irksome, iterative, monotonous, mundane, ponderous, slow, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, uninteresting, weariful, wearisome, weary), ‏مسيخ (savorless, savourless, tasteless), ‏مضجر (annoying, boring, dim, dull, humdrum, irksome, iterative, pest, ponderous, prosy, slow, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, weariful, wearisome, weary), ‏مبتذل (banal, common, commonplace, conventional, corny, everyday, fade, fading, hack, hackneyed, outworn, overused, pedestrian, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, prose, routine, slipshod, stale, stereotyped, tacky, threadbare, tired, trite, trivial, vulgar, well worn, workaday, worn out), ‏غلس (pain in the neck), ‏تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trite, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vile, worthless), ‏رذل (be low, reject, repulsive), ‏بايخ (banal, rotten, tired, trite). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скучен (arid, dead alive, drear, dryasdust, dull, dumb, dusty, heartbreaking, heavy, humdrum, insipid, jejune, jogtrot, long, long winded, long-spun, moldy, monotonous, mouldy, mousey, plodding, pokey, ponderous, prosaic, prosy, slow, soggy, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, uninspired, uninteresting, unvaried, weariful, wearisome), безвкусен (conspicuous, flavorless, flavourless, gaudy, gingerbread, insipid, meretricious, savorless, savourless, tasteless, tawdry, tinsel, twopence colored, twopence coloured, unpalatable, unsavory, unsavoury, watery, wishy washy), банален (banal, commonplace, everyday, flatulent, hack, hackneyed, namby-pamby, pedestrian, platitudinous, quotidian, tired, trite, trivial, twice-told, well worn, worn out), плосък (commonplace, depressed, even, flat, level, plane, tabular), изветрял (flat). (various references)

Czech

prázdný (bare, blank, clean, disused, empty, hollow, inane, light, meaningless, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, void, windy), mdlý (dull, faint, flat, languid, pale, sapless, sick, sickly, torpid, wan, watery), jalový (barren, frothy, fruitless, gassy), chabý (faint, frail, lame, threadbare, torpid, wan, weedy), bezvýrazný (blank, characterless, dead pan, flabby, glassy, inexpressive, insipid, noncommittal, tame). (various references)

Farsi 

مرده (Dead, Defunct, Exanimate, Extinct), خنک (Breezy, Chilly, Cool, Flat, Fresh, Icy), بیمزه (Arid, Colourless, Tame), بیروح (Arid, Exanimate, Inert, Meek, Pedestrian, Tame), بی حس (Dead, Stolid, Torpid), بی حرکت (Immobile, Pat, Still). (various references)

French

sans intérêt, plat, insipide, fade, délavé, banal. (various references)

German

schal (empty, flat, muffler, scarf, shawl, smooth, stale, weak), nichtssagend (bland, blank, characterless, empty, expressionless, featureless, frivolous, inexpressive, inexpressively, insignificant, meaningless, pointless, trite, trivial, unmeaning, unmeaningly, vacant, vacuous), matt (checkmate, cloudy, dead, dim, dull, dullness, faint, feeble, flat, frosted, jaded, lame, languid, languidly, limp, mat, mate, matt, opal, opaque, Pearl, slack, subdued, tired, wan, wanly, weak, weary), leer (bare, blank, blankly, blanks, devoid, empty, free, frothily, frothy, hollow, idle, no-op, poor, specious, thin, unseeing, untenanted, vacant, vacuous, vacuously, vain, void), kraftlos (anodyne, effete, feeble, impotent, infirm, invalid, lank, limp, nerveless, nervelessly, powerless, powerlessly, weak), geistlos (brainless, dull, inane, insipid, mindless, spiritless, spiritlessly, unimaginative, unintelligently), fade (bland, characterless, commonplace, dismal, dull, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, stuffy, tasteless, tastelessly, trite, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references)

Greek 

σαχλόσ (mawkish, namby-pamby, prosy, punk, silly, soppy), ανούσιοσ (flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, jejune, milk and water, namby-pamby, savorless, tasteless, unpalatable, unsavory, unsavoury, zestless), αηδία (abhorrence, disgust, distaste, eyesore, insipidity, insipidness, mawkishness, nausea, nauseousness, shucks, sliminess, vapidity). (various references)

Hebrew 

תפל (flat, flavourless, insipid, tasteless, unsalted, unsavoury), חסר ע� ין (disinterested). (various references)

Hungarian

poshadt (stale), áporodott (airless, frouzy, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fuggy, fusty, stale, stuffy). (various references)

Indonesian

hambar (insipid). (various references)

Italian

insulso (dull, flat, insipid, tame, unintelligently). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

没趣味 (commonplace, insipid). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぼつしゅみ (commonplace, insipid). (various references)

Manx

eig (decease, prosaic, stale, unexciting, wishy-washy). (various references)

Pig Latin

apidvay.(various references)

Portuguese

vápido, sem interesse (arid, chippy, flat, pet, prosaic, soulless, tame, vapidity), monótono (arid, drab, dreary, flat, humeral, monotone, monotonous, repetitious, singsong, wearisome), insípido (flat, flavorless, flavourless, frigidity, halfback, insipid, jejune, mawseed, milk and water, muzzy, pointless, sapless, savorless, savourless, stale, tasteless, uninspired, washy, watery, wishy washy), enfadonho (arid, barren, boring, bothersome, difficult, disagreeable, drab, dull, fastidious, humdrum, insipid, lengthy, monotonous, muzzy, pesky, preachy, prolix, prosy, repetitious, soporific, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, untoward, vexing, wearisome, weary), desenxabido (insipidity, milk and water, mushy, platitudinous, pointsman). (various references)

Romanian

searbãd (flat, insipid, musty, tasteless, tedious), plicticos (boring, bothersome, dryasdust, dull, humdrum, lifeless, musty, ponderous, stodgy, tedious, toilsome, wearisome), insipid (flat, flavorless, flavourless, inane, insipid, mawkish, milk and water, tame, tasteless, wishy washy), fad (mawkish, musty, tasteless), fãrã gust (flash, insipid, mawkish, milk and water, unseasoned), anost (dull, flat, flavorless, flavourless, ineffectual, tedious). (various references)

Russian 

безвкусный (dowdy, flaring, flavorless, flavourless, gaudy, insipid, milk and water, tasteless), пресный (bland, flavorless, flavourless, fresh, savorless, savourless, sweet, tasteless, unleavened). (various references)

Scottish

marbh (dead, late, lifeless, slay, tasteless : na mairbh, torpid). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pun pare (steamy, vapoury), bljutav (insipid, stale). (various references)

Spanish

insípido (dull, insipid, tame, tasteles, tasteless, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references)

Swedish

fadd (flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, stale). (various references)

Turkish

yavan (arid, bald, crude, cut and dried, dry, frail, insipid, jaded, jejune, meager, meagre, milk and water, platitudinous, prosaic, prose, prosy, tasteless, uninspired, watery), tatsız (arid, chippy, disagreeable, distasteful, dull, dusty, flat, flavorless, flavourless, frail, insipid, milk and water, objectionable, queasy, savorless, savourless, sticky, tame, tasteless, ugly, unamusing, uncomfortable, uncongenial, ungracious, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsweetened, unwelcome, watery), sönük (dead pan, dim, extinct, extinguished, faint, lifeless, spiritless, stagnant, unimpassioned, uninspired, uninspiring), sıkıcı (arid, bald, boring, burdensome, constringent, cut and dried, damnable, dead alive, disconcerting, ditch water, ditchwater, drab, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, gaunt, gloomy, grave, grotty, humdrum, inanimate, insipid, irksome, oppressive, poky, ponderous, prose, prosy, slow, sluggish, soul-destroying, soulless, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, trying, uncongenial, unexeciting, unpleasant, unreadable, unsensational, waste, watery, wearisome), lezzetsiz (flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, tasteless, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references)

Ukranian 

вульгарний (banal, blatant, caddish, coarse, gross, low, low down, non-u, parvenu, raffish, unladylike, vulgar, vulgarian), несмачний (flavorless, flavourless, insipid, tasteless, unsavoury), беззмістовний (bald, barren, blank, empty, inane, insignificant, matterless, sapless). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhạt nhẽo (cold, cool, coolish, coolly, flavourless, gelid, savourless, tedious, unsavoury), nhạt (delicate, female, washy, weak, wishy-washy). (various references)

vapidus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "vapid": vapidities, vapidity, vapidly, vapidness, vapidnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Vapid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apid, vacid, vaid, vakif, vami, vamid, vampi, vanid, vape, vapet, vapi, vapide, vapod, vappid, varix, vaxid, Vespidae, vimid, viped, Vipond, Vpi, zapid. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pavid.

-1 letter: avid, diva, padi, paid.

-2 letters: aid, dap, dip, pad, pia, via.

-3 letters: ad, ai, id, pa, pi.

+2 letters: impavid, vapidly.

+3 letters: adaptive, adoptive, deprival, overpaid, spavined, vapidity.

+4 letters: depraving, depravity, deprivals, overplaid, pervading, prevailed, vapidness, vaporised, vaporized, videotape.

+5 letters: adaptively, adaptivity, adoptively, adsorptive, captivated, disapprove, overplaids, passivated, pavilioned, privatised, privatized, vapidities, videotaped, videotapes.

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