vapid
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vapid¹
- /ˈvæp.ɪd/ UK, US
- /ˈveɪp.ɪd/ UK, US
Rhymes with -æpɪd
adjective more vapid · most vapid
- 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 […]
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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.
Similar: pedestrian, tedious, banal, basic, mindless, beat, blah, commonplace, bland, boring, cold, colourless
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Tasteless, bland, or insipid.
Similar: flavorless, savorless, wearish, bland, cardboard, flaggy, ingustible, intastable, insipid, tame, gustless, sapidless
VAPID²
adjective
- 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”.
Opposite: SMART
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adjective
Opposite: SMART
Translations
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adj lifeless, dull, or banal
| Español | soso, insulso |
|---|---|
| Português | insoso, insosso, banal |
| Français | amorphe, inintéressant, insignifiant, niais, gourde, terne |
| Deutsch | nichtssagend, geistlos, flach, kraftlos |
| Italiano | insulso, scialbo, banale, insignificante |
| Română | banal, plictisitor, anost, nesemnificativ |
| Русский | ску́чный skúčnyj |
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