vapid

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈvæp.ɪd/|/ˈveɪp.ɪd/    美 /ˈvæp.ɪd/|/ˈveɪp.ɪd/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. 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 […]
  2. 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.
  3. Tasteless, bland, or insipid.

词形变化

more vapid comparative most vapid superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
vapidity vapidly vapidness

词源

Etymology tree
Latin vapor
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin vapidusbor.
English vapid
Borrowed from Latin vapidus (“flat, vapid”).
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