vapid

Meanings

• adjective

  Lacking in interest or excitement; insipid.

  - "The food was vapid and lacked any flavor."
  - "His speech was vapid and failed to engage the audience."

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Pronunciation

1. /ˈveɪp.ɪd/
   
   
   
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Rhymes

Words rhyming with vapid
damp , camp , champ , clamp , hamp , ramp , tamp

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Variants

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vapid , vapidly , vapidness , vapidnesses

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Etymology

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From Latin 'vapidus' meaning 'damp, moist, humid'. The meaning evolved to 'uninteresting' in English.

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Trivia

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1. The word vapid is often used in criticism of art or literature.

2. In chemistry, a vapid is a substance in the gaseous state at room temperature.

3. Vapid is the opposite of the word 'vivacious', meaning full of life and energy.

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Related Concepts

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1. insipid: Synonym of vapid, meaning lacking in taste or flavor.

2. banal: Another synonym of vapid, meaning lacking in originality or creativity.

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Quotes

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1. Waiting rooms, as I'm sure you know, are small rooms with plenty of chairs for waiting, as well as piles of old, dull magazines to read and some "vapid" paintings … while you endure the boredom that doctors and dentists inflict on their patients before bringing them in to poke them and prod them and do all the miserable things that such people are paid to do.

   - Lemony Snicket,{it}The Ersatz Elevator{/it},2001

2. In a secular age, symbolic rituals such as lighting the Olympic torch inevitably risk seeming a little "vapid".

   - Tony Perrottet,{it}Civilization{/it},June/July 2000

3. … the incompetent servant, by whomsoever employed, is always against his employer. Even those born governors, noble and right honourable creatures, who have been the most imbecile in high places, have uniformly shown themselves the most opposed (sometimes in belying distrust, sometimes in "vapid" insolence) to THEIR employer. What is in such wise true of the public master and servant, is equally true of the private master and servant all the world over.

   - Charles Dickens,{it}Our Mutual Friend{/it},1865

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Culture

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Vapid is often used in literature and art to describe characters or situations that are uninteresting or lack depth. In music, it can be used to describe a monotonous or repetitive melody.

How to Memorize "vapid"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize a plate of bland, unappetizing food to remember the meaning of vapid.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word vapid with the feeling of boredom or lack of excitement.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic using the first letter of each word in 'Vapid' - 'V' for 'Vague', 'A' for 'Apathy', 'P' for 'Plain', 'I' for 'Insipid', and 'D' for 'Dull'.

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