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say it: VAP-id
vapid is an adjective meaning "lacking taste or flavor or tang". It carries 2 recorded senses.
lacking taste or flavor or tang
“a bland diet”
“insipid hospital food”
“flavorless supermarket tomatoes”
“vapid beer”
“vapid tea”
lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
“a vapid conversation”
“a vapid smile”
“a bunch of vapid schoolgirls”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for vapid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.