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vapid

UK/ˈvæp.ɪd/

vapid adjective: offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.

Adjective (1)

vapid (comparative more vapid, superlative most vapid)

  1. Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.
    • 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 […]1995, Steven Daly, Nathaniel Wice, “Koons, Jeff”, in alt.culture, New York: HarperPerennial, →ISBN
  2. Lifeless, dull, or banal.
    • Then there was a little more trite conversation between Mr. Arabin and Mr. Harding; trite, and hard, and vapid, and senseless.1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, →ISBN, page 30
  3. Tasteless, bland, or insipid.

Adjective (2) capitalized: VAPID

VAPID (not comparable)

  1. (mnemonic) An acronym for remembering undesirable characteristics for goal-setting: vague, amorphous, pie-in-the-sky, irrelevant, delayed/disassociated.
    • One of the things that Paterson talks about is VAPID goals. He says that “VAPID goals are what we often set if we’re not thinking about it”.2016 August 13, Sonnie Bailey, “Do you have VAPID goals?”, in Wealth & Risk, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2019
    • SMART is an acronym for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Timely goals, whereas VAPID goals are Vague, Amorphous, Pie-in-the-sky, Irrelevant, Dissociated goals.2017 December 21, “Yule Update: SMART vs VAPID goals”, in Chamomile Has A Blog, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2021

vapid meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

vapid in Urdu

بےجان, بےلطف, بےمزہ, بےرس, پھیکا, سیٹھا

vapid in Bengali

স্বাদহীন

vapid in Malayalam

uninspired, insipid, colourless
വിരസമായ, നിർജീവമായ, രസമില്ലാത്ത, മണവും ഗുണവുമില്ലാത്ത, രുചിയില്ലാത്ത, രസശുഷ്കമായ

vapid in Kannada

ಸಪ್ಪೆ, ಕಂಪಿಲ್ಲದ, ಮದಡು, ಮಂಕು
More languagesFewer languages
vapid in Persian
لیوه live

Synonyms of vapid

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Antonyms

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Forms of vapid

comparativemore vapid
superlativemost vapid

Origin of vapid

Borrowed from Latin vapidus (“flat, vapid”).

Words formed from vapid

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Questions about vapid

What does vapid mean?
Vapid means offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.
What is vapid in Urdu?
Vapid in Urdu is بےجان, بےلطف, بےمزہ. See Vapid meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is vapid?
Vapid is an adjective.
How do you pronounce vapid?
Vapid is pronounced /ˈvæp.ɪd/ (UK).

Words near vapid in the dictionary

  1. vaper
  2. vaper's tongue
  3. vapers
  4. vapes
  5. VAPI
  6. vapid
  7. vapider
  8. vapidest
  9. Vapidiana
  10. vapidism
  11. vapidities

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vapid (page history and authors); VAPID (page history and authors); vapid (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vapid (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vapid (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); vapid (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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