vapidly

1. 1.

   in a vapid manner

   “a vapidly smiling salesman”

Questions about vapidly

What does vapidly mean?

vapidly means "in a vapid manner".

How many syllables are in vapidly?

vapidly has 3 syllables and divides as va-pid-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is vapidly a common word?

vapidly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.