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vapid

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vap·id  (vpd, vpd)
adj.
1. Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull: vapid conversation.
2. Lacking taste, zest, or flavor; flat: vapid beer.
[Latin vapidus.]
va·pidi·ty, vapid·ness n.
vapid·ly adv.
vapid
Adjective
dull and uninteresting: their publications were vapid and amateurish [Latin vapidus]
vapidity n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.vapidvapid - lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"
flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, bland, flat
tasteless - lacking flavor
2.vapidvapid - lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest; "a vapid conversation"; "a vapid smile"; "a bunch of vapid schoolgirls"
unexciting, unstimulating - not stimulating


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But dreams--of those who dream as I, Aspiringly, are damned, and die: Yet should I swear I mean alone, By notes so very shrilly blown, To break upon Time's monotone, While yet my vapid joy and grief Are tintless of the yellow leaf-- Why not an imp the graybeard hath, Will shake his shadow in my path-- And e'en the graybeard will o'erlook Connivingly my dreaming-book.
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It was a grey, white face, shrivelled and pinched, weak eyes without depth, a vapid smile in which there was no meaning.
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When the supercilious and vapid point out faults, they ever run into contradictions and folly; it is only under the lash of the discerning and the experienced, that we betray by our writhings the power of the blow we receive.
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