vapid : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: vapid	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for vapid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vapid adj lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" Synonym(s): bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest; "a vapid conversation"; "a vapid smile"; "a bunch of vapid schoolgirls"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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"idly}, adv. -- {Vap"idness}, n.