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vap⋅id

  [vap-id]
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–adjective
1. lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor; insipid; flat: vapid tea.
2. without liveliness or spirit; dull or tedious: a vapid party; vapid conversation.
Origin:
1650–60; < L vapidus; akin to vapor

Related forms:
va⋅pid⋅i⋅ty, vap⋅id⋅ness, noun
vap⋅id⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. lifeless, flavorless. 2. spiritless, unanimated, tiresome, prosaic.

Antonyms:
1. pungent. 2. stimulating.
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vap·id   (vāp'ĭd, vā'pĭd)   
adj.  
  1. Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull: vapid conversation.
  2. Lacking taste, zest, or flavor; flat: vapid beer.

[Latin vapidus.]
va·pid'i·ty, vap'id·ness n., vap'id·ly adv.
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Vapid

Vap"id\, a. [L. vapidus having lost its lire and spirit, vapid; akin to vappa vapid wine, vapor vapor. See Vapor.] 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"id*ly, adv. -- Vap"id*ness, n.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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vapid 
1656, "flat, insipid" (of drinks), from L. vapidus "flat, insipid," lit. "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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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