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   vapid
         adj 1: lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid
                  hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid
                  beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: {bland}, {flat}, {flavorless},
                  {flavourless}, {insipid}, {savorless}, {savourless},
                  {vapid}]
         2: lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest; "a
            vapid conversation"; "a vapid smile"; "a bunch of vapid
            schoolgirls"

English Dictionary: vapid by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vivid
adj
  1. evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description"
    Synonym(s): graphic, lifelike, pictorial, vivid
  2. having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience; "a vivid recollection"
  3. having striking color; "bright dress"; "brilliant tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage"
    Synonym(s): bright, brilliant, vivid
  4. (of color) having the highest saturation; "vivid green"; "intense blue"
    Synonym(s): intense, vivid
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vaivode \Vai"vode\, n. [Cf. F. vayvode. See {Waywode}.]
      See {Waywode}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Waywode \Way"wode\, n. [Russ. voevoda, or Pol. woiewoda;
      properly, a leader of an army, a leader in war. Cf.
      {Vaivode}.]
      Originally, the title of a military commander in various
      Slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns
      or provinces. It was assumed for a time by the rulers of
      Moldavia and Wallachia, who were afterwards called hospodars,
      and has also been given to some inferior Turkish officers.
      [Written also {vaivode}, {voivode}, {waiwode}, and
      {woiwode}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vaivode \Vai"vode\, n. [Cf. F. vayvode. See {Waywode}.]
      See {Waywode}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Waywode \Way"wode\, n. [Russ. voevoda, or Pol. woiewoda;
      properly, a leader of an army, a leader in war. Cf.
      {Vaivode}.]
      Originally, the title of a military commander in various
      Slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns
      or provinces. It was assumed for a time by the rulers of
      Moldavia and Wallachia, who were afterwards called hospodars,
      and has also been given to some inferior Turkish officers.
      [Written also {vaivode}, {voivode}, {waiwode}, and
      {woiwode}.]

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"id*ly}, adv. -- {Vap"id*ness}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vifda \Vif"da\, n.
      In the Orkney and Shetland Islands, beef and mutton hung and
      dried, but not salted. [Scot.] [Written also {vivda}.]
      --Jamieson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vifda \Vif"da\, n.
      In the Orkney and Shetland Islands, beef and mutton hung and
      dried, but not salted. [Scot.] [Written also {vivda}.]
      --Jamieson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vivda \Viv"da\ (v[icr]v"d[adot]), n.
      See {Vifda}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vifda \Vif"da\, n.
      In the Orkney and Shetland Islands, beef and mutton hung and
      dried, but not salted. [Scot.] [Written also {vivda}.]
      --Jamieson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vivda \Viv"da\ (v[icr]v"d[adot]), n.
      See {Vifda}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vivid \Viv"id\, a. [L. vividus, from vivere to life; akin to
      vivus living. See {Quick}, a., and cf. {Revive}, {Viand},
      {Victuals}, {Vital}.]
      1. True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or
            freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense;
            as, vivid colors.
  
                     In dazzling streaks the vivid lightnings play.
                                                                              --Cowper.
  
                     Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of
                     painting, the human face and human form divine.
                                                                              --Bp. Hobart.
  
      2. Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors;
            lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination.
  
                     Body is a fit workhouse for sprightly, vivid
                     faculties to exercise . . . themselves in. --South.
  
      Syn: Clear; lucid; bright; strong; striking; lively; quick;
               sprightly; active. -- {Viv"id*ly}, adv. --
               {Viv"id*ness}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Voivode \Voi"vode\, n.
      See {Waywode}. --Longfellow.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Waywode \Way"wode\, n. [Russ. voevoda, or Pol. woiewoda;
      properly, a leader of an army, a leader in war. Cf.
      {Vaivode}.]
      Originally, the title of a military commander in various
      Slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns
      or provinces. It was assumed for a time by the rulers of
      Moldavia and Wallachia, who were afterwards called hospodars,
      and has also been given to some inferior Turkish officers.
      [Written also {vaivode}, {voivode}, {waiwode}, and
      {woiwode}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Voivode \Voi"vode\, n.
      See {Waywode}. --Longfellow.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Waywode \Way"wode\, n. [Russ. voevoda, or Pol. woiewoda;
      properly, a leader of an army, a leader in war. Cf.
      {Vaivode}.]
      Originally, the title of a military commander in various
      Slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns
      or provinces. It was assumed for a time by the rulers of
      Moldavia and Wallachia, who were afterwards called hospodars,
      and has also been given to some inferior Turkish officers.
      [Written also {vaivode}, {voivode}, {waiwode}, and
      {woiwode}.]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   VIVID
  
      A numerical {constraint}-oriented language.
  
      ["VIVID: The Kernel of a Knowledge Representation Environment
      Based on the Constraints Paradigm of Computation", J. Maleki,
      Proc 20th Annual Hawaii Intl Conf on System Sciences (Jan
      1987) pp.591-597].
  
      (1995-02-23)
  
  
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