Etymology
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Borrowed from Latin vapidus (“flat, vapid”).
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Adjective
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vapid (comparative more vapid, superlative most vapid)
- Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.
1995, Steven Daly, Nathaniel Wice, “Koons, Jeff”, in alt.culture, New York: HarperPerennial, →ISBN:In Koons' best-known works—a life-sized poly-chromed wood replica of Michael Jackson and his pet chimp Bubbles; vapid fin de siècle readymades such as a trio of basketballs floating in a fishtank […]
- Lifeless, dull, or banal.
1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, →ISBN, page 30:Then there was a little more trite conversation between Mr. Arabin and Mr. Harding; trite, and hard, and vapid, and senseless.
- Tasteless, bland, or insipid.
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lifeless, dull, or banal
- Bulgarian: банален (bg) (banalen), изтъркан (bg) (iztǎrkan)
- Czech: vyčpělý, nezajímavý (cs), nezáživný (cs)
- Faroese: einkisigandi
- Finnish: mitäänsanomaton (fi), mielenkiinnoton, tympeä (fi)
- French: amorphe (fr), inintéressant (fr), insignifiant (fr), niais (fr), gourde (fr), terne (fr), bête (fr), couillon (fr), cucul (fr), cucul-la-praline (fr), mièvre (fr)
- Georgian: უშინაარსო (ušinaarso), მოსაწყენი (mosac̣q̇eni)
- German: nichtssagend (de), geistlos (de), flach (de), kraftlos (de)
- Italian: insulso (it), scialbo (it), banale (it), insignificante (it)
- Plautdietsch: fleiw
- Polish: bezbarwny (pl)
- Portuguese: insoso, insosso (pt), banal (pt)
- Romanian: banal (ro) m, plictisitor (ro) m, anost (ro) m, nesemnificativ (ro) m
- Russian: ску́чный (ru) (skúčnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: isprazan (sh), beznačajan (sh), banalan (sh), bezvezan (sh)
- Spanish: soso (es), bobo (es), memo (es), papanatas (es), pavitonto, zoquete (es), sin vida
- Swedish: andefattig (sv), tråkig (sv)
- Walloon: tantaloye (wa)
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tasteless, bland, or insipid
- Bulgarian: блудкав (bg) (bludkav), безвкусен (bg) (bezvkusen)
- Czech: nevýrazný, mdlý (cs), nemastný neslaný, nezajímavý (cs)
- Finnish: mitäänsanomaton (fi), valju (fi)
- French: insipide (fr), plat (fr), fade (fr), fadasse (fr)
- Georgian: უგემოვნო (ugemovno)
- German: fad (de), schal (de), flach (de)
- Ido: insipida (io)
- Italian: insipido (it), scialbo (it), scipito (it)
- Persian: لیوه (fa) (live)
- Plautdietsch: fleiw
- Polish: beztreściowy, beztreściwy
- Portuguese: insípido (pt)
- Romanian: insipid (ro) m, fad (ro) m
- Russian: безвку́сный (ru) (bezvkúsnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: bezukusan (sh), bljutav (sh), neukusan (sh)
- Sicilian: dissàpitu (scn)
- Spanish: insípido (es), soso (es), insulso (es)
- Swedish: fadd (sv)
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