VAPID: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for VAPID?

Need another word that means the same as “vapid”? Find 33 synonyms and 30 related words for “vapid” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Vapid” are: bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, uninspired, colourless, uninteresting, feeble, dead, dull, boring, tedious, tired, unexciting, uninspiring, unimaginative, lifeless, spiritless, sterile, anaemic, tame, bloodless, jejune, vacuous, stale, trite, pallid, wishy-washy, watery, tasteless

Vapid as an Adjective

Definitions of "Vapid" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “vapid” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging; bland.
• Lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest.
• Lacking taste or flavor or tang.

Synonyms of "Vapid" as an adjective (33 Words)

anaemic	(of a person) suffering from anaemia. Boro gave a thoroughly anaemic performance.
bland	(of food or drink) unseasoned, mild-tasting, or insipid. Standardized bland beers of mediocre quality.
bloodless	(of a person) cold or ruthless. Charts of bloodless economic indicators.
boring	Not interesting; tedious. I ve got a boring job in an office.
colourless	Lacking in variety and interest. The book is rather colourless like its author.
dead	(of a place or time) characterized by a lack of activity or excitement. Dead coals.
dull	Not having a sharp edge or point. A dull glow.
feeble	Lacking strength- Nathaniel Hawthorne. Her feeble cries of pain.
flat	Of a key having a flat or flats in the signature. A flat two dimensional painting.
flavorless	Lacking taste or flavor or tang. Flavorless supermarket tomatoes.
flavourless	Lacking taste or flavor or tang. The stories are entirely flavourless.
insipid	Lacking interest or significance or impact. Insipid hospital food.
jejune	Lacking interest or significance or impact. The jejune diets of the very poor.
lifeless	Destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings. His lifeless body was taken from the river.
pallid	Abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress. Pallid liberalism.
savorless	Lacking taste or flavor or tang.
savourless	Lacking taste or flavor or tang.
spiritless	Evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant. A spiritless reply to criticism.
stale	No longer new and interesting or exciting. Their marriage had gone stale.
sterile	Lacking in imagination, creativity, or excitement; uninspiring or unproductive. The peppermints are vigorous sterile hybrids.
tame	(of a plant) produced by cultivation. Every businessman needs a tame lawyer at his elbow.
tasteless	Lacking aesthetic or social taste. A tasteless joke.
tedious	So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness. Tedious days on the train.
tired	Bored or impatient with. Tired clich s like the information revolution.
trite	Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse. This point may now seem obvious and trite.
unexciting	Not exciting; dull. Many school prospectuses are dull and unexciting.
unimaginative	Dealing only with concrete facts. The audience proved sluggish and unimaginative.
uninspired	Deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention. He writes repetitive and uninspired poetry.
uninspiring	Not producing excitement or interest. An uninspiring game that United scarcely deserved to win.
uninteresting	Arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement. The scenery is dull and uninteresting.
vacuous	Devoid of significance or force. A vacuous space.
watery	Filled with water. Watery sunshine.
wishy-washy	Weak in willpower, courage or vitality.

Usage Examples of "Vapid" as an adjective

• Vapid tea.
• Vapid beer.
• A vapid smile.
• A vapid conversation.
• A bunch of vapid schoolgirls.
• Tuneful but vapid musical comedies.

Associations of "Vapid" (30 Words)

banal	So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring. Songs with banal repeated words.
banality	A trite or obvious remark. There is an essential banality to the story he tells.
bland	Showing no strong emotion. A bland diet.
boring	So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness. I ve got a boring job in an office.
bromide	A reproduction or piece of typesetting on bromide paper. Feel good bromides create the illusion of problem solving.
cliche	A trite or obvious remark.
commonplace	A notable passage in a work copied into a commonplace book. The usual commonplace remarks.
drab	Clothes especially trousers made of drab. Drab faded curtains.
dull	Make or become dull or less intense. Albert s eyes dulled a little.
edible	Fit or suitable to be eaten. Nasturtium seeds are edible.
fatigue	Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody. Political fatigue.
featureless	Lacking distinguishing characteristics or features. A featureless landscape of snow and ice.
hackneyed	(of a phrase or idea) having been overused; unoriginal and trite. Hackneyed phrases.
humdrum	Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement. He was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners.
insipid	Lacking taste or flavor or tang. Insipid hospital food.
irksome	Irritating; annoying. Petty regulations were becoming very irksome.
lackluster	Lacking luster or shine. A dull lackluster life.
mediocrity	Ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding. The team suddenly came good after years of mediocrity.
monotony	Constancy of tone or pitch or inflection. You can become resigned to the monotony of captivity.
nondescript	A nondescript person or thing. She lived in a nondescript suburban apartment block.
normal	Conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm not abnormal. Normal working hours.
platitude	A trite or obvious remark. She began uttering liberal platitudes.
ponderous	(especially of speech or writing) dull or laborious. A ponderous yawn.
prosaic	Having or using the style or diction of prose as opposed to poetry; lacking imaginativeness or originality. A prosaic and unimaginative essay.
taste	The sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus. His cold deprived him of his sense of taste.
tiresome	So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness. Weeding is a tiresome but essential job.
trite	Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse. The trite metaphor hard as nails.
uninteresting	Characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative. The scenery is dull and uninteresting.
usual	Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure. The usual greeting.
wearisome	So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness. They insisted on his presence at wearisome musical soir es.