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vapid
What does vapid mean?
vapid (adjective): lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use vapid in a sentence?
- A vapid conversation. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce vapid?
/ˈvæpɪd/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does vapid come from?
Borrowed from Latin vapidus (“flat, vapid”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “vapid” mean?
increasing gradually by regular degrees or additions
Not quite: that's what incremental means.
no longer in use or active, nor expected to be again
Not quite: that's what defunct means.
lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
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unable for both to exist or be true at the same time
Not quite: that's what contradictory means.
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