Word Meanings - VAPID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. --

Additional info about word: VAPID

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VAPID)

• Dry
• Arid
• parched
• moistureless
• juiceless
• barren
• tame
• sarcastic
• vapid
• lifeless
• dull
• tedious
• uninteresting
• monotonous
• Flat
• Dull
• insipid
• spiritless
• level
• horizontal
• absolute
• even
• downright
• mawkish
• tasteless
• Inane
• Empty
• pointless
• feeble
• characterless
• Insipid
• Tasteless
• flavorless
• flat
• insulse
• prosy
• stupid
• Pointless
• Vague
• aimless
• inexpressive

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of VAPID)

• Roughen
• furrow
• disequalize
• graduate

Related words: (words related to VAPID)

• LIFELESS
  Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• MAWKISHLY
  In a mawkish way.
• HORIZONTALLY
  In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.
• ABSOLUTENESS
  The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• LEVELER
  1. One who, or that which, levels. 2. One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist.
• LEVEL
  libella level, water level, a plumb level, dim. of libra pound, measure for liquids, balance, water poise, level. Cf. Librate, 1. A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is
• MAWKISHNESS
  The quality or state of being mawkish. J. H. Newman.
• VAGUELY
  In a vague manner. What he vaguely hinted at, but dared not speak. Hawthorne.
• FLAVORLESS
  Without flavor; tasteless.
• FEEBLENESS
  The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.
• GRADUATED
  Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer. Graduated tube, bottle, cap, or glass, a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the
• HORIZONTAL
  1. Pertaining to, or near, the horizon. "Horizontal misty air." Milton. 2. Parallel to the horizon; on a level; as, a horizontalline or surface. 3. Measured or contained in a plane of the horizon; as, horizontal distance. Horizontal drill,
• MOISTURELESS
  Without moisture.
• BARRENLY
  Unfruitfully; unproductively.
• STUPIDITY
  1. The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness. 2. Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction. A stupidity Past admiration strikes me, joined with fear. Chapman.
• POINTLESS
  Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark. Syn. -- Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid.
• FEEBLE
  OF. feble, flebe, floibe, floible, foible, F. faible, L. flebilis to 1. Deficient in physical strenght; weak; infirm; debilitated. Carried all the feeble of them upon asses. 2 Chron. xxviii. 15. 2. Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action
• VAPID
  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. --
• SEA LEVEL
  The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
• TOPARCH
  The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy. The prince and toparch of that country. Fuller.
• LEPROSY
  A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one
• EPARCH
  In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy.
• EPARCHY
  A province, prefecture, or territory, under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese.
• FORCIBLE-FEEBLE
  Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. (more info) Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry
• UNDERFURROW
  To cover as under a furrow; to plow in; as, to underfurrow seed or manure.
• ENFEEBLER
  One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.