Antonyms for vapid
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : vap-id |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈvæp ɪd |
Definition of vapid
Origin :- 1650s, "flat, insipid" (of drinks), from Latin vapidus "flat, insipid," literally "that has exhaled its vapor," related to vappa "stale wine," and probably to vapor "vapor." Applied from 1758 to talk and writing deemed dull and lifeless. Related: Vapidly.
- adj flat, dull
- No; the tame and vapid acquiescents are not to be found in literature.
- Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby
- He was born to the camp, and not to the vapid air of courts.
- Extract from : « Love-at-Arms » by Raphael Sabatini
- And what a number of vapid and tasteless jokes would it provoke!
- Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever
- Some vapid, frivolous, and would-be fashionable, but all full of kindly motive.
- Extract from : « Under Fire » by Charles King
- Do they take me for so vapid a little fool that I may be compelled to any course they choose?
- Extract from : « Margaret Tudor » by Annie T. Colcock
- The fruit of her labor was in her hands, but it was vapid, tasteless, unsatisfying.
- Extract from : « Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter » by Lawrence L. Lynch
- He wrote annually reams of the best-intentioned and vapid sermons.
- Extract from : « The Book of Snobs » by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Yet their lives were vapid monotonies, only long in months and years.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 » by Various
- She was pretty, but her face was vapid, and seemed to have no character at all.
- Extract from : « The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy » by John Galsworthy
- On the face of it nothing is so vapid and profitless as column after column of this reading.
- Extract from : « The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner » by Charles Dudley Warner
Synonyms for vapid
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