<adj.all> a bland diet insipid hospital food flavorless supermarket tomatoes vapid beer vapid tea
lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
<adj.all> a vapid conversation a vapid smile a bunch of vapid schoolgirls
Vapid \Vap"id\, a. [L. vapidus having lost its lire and spirit, vapid; akin to vappa vapid wine, vapor vapor. See {Vapor}.] 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.
In a brilliant and discreetly tongue-in-cheek performance of Weber's vapid Konzertstuck in F minor he came before us in both roles.
From 1951-84, it was directed by Lew Christensen, one of Balanchine's most dedicated, if vapid, followers.
In sticking so closely to Steinbeck, Steppenwolf has transformed the book's passion into doggedness, its mythic style into vapid blandness.
Worse still, gaping holes in the story are filled with vapid mumblings about CIA conspiracy and the 'military-industrial complex'.
No doubt Mr. Robbins's oeuvre would seem less vapid had he not produced a masterpiece like "Afternoon of a Faun."