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