vapid Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite lacking taste or flavor or tang
    flat; flavorless; insipid; savorless; savourless; bland; flavourless.
    • a bland diet
    • insipid hospital food
    • flavorless supermarket tomatoes
    • vapid beer
    • vapid tea
  2. adjective satellite lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
    • a vapid conversation
    • a vapid smile
    • a bunch of vapid schoolgirls

WordNet

Vap"id adjective
Etymology
L. vapidus having lost its lire and spirit, vapid; akin to vappa vapid wine, vapor vapor. See Vapor.
Definitions
  1. 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 1913