vapidadj.

Brit.

/ˈvapɪd/, U.S.

/ˈvæpəd/

Forms: Also 1600s vappid.

Etymology: < Latin vapidus savourless, insipid. Compare obsolete French vapide (Cotgrave).

a. Of liquors, beverages, etc.: Devoid of briskness; failing to produce an agreeable effect on the palate; flat, insipid.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [adjective]

wallowc897

smatchless?c1225

unsavoury?c1225

fresha1398

savourlessa1398

wearish1398

wershed1398

fond?c1430

unsavoured1435

palled1440

mildc1450

walsh1513

wallowish1548

dead1552

waterish1566

cold1585

flatten1594

seasonless1595

wersha1599

blown1600

flash1601

fatuous1608

tasteless1611

flat1617

insipid1620

ingustable1623

flashy1625

flatted1626

saltless1633

gustless1636

remiss1655

rheumatical1655

untasteable1656

vapid1656

exolete1657

distasted1662

vappous1673

insulse1676

toothless1679

mawkisha1697

intastable1701

waugh1703

impoignant1733

flavourless1736

instimulating1740

deadish1742

mawky1755

brineless1791

wishy-washy1791

keestless1802

shilpit1814

wish-washy1814

sapidless1821

silent1826

slushy1839

bland1878

spendsavour1879

wish-wash1896

dolled1917

spiceless1980

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > bland or insipid

colourlessc1425

unsavouryc1449

wearish?1533

wersha1599

tasteless1603

tame1604

juiceless1620

water gruela1627

dry1632

soulless1632

frigid1643

vapid1656

insipida1684

fade1715

heartless1780

vapid1785

achromatic1799

sauceless1817

albuminous1858

antiseptic1891

flat-footed1899

unatmospheric1913

defanged1920

anodyne1933

spiceless1942

tea-party1961

nothingburger1965

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Vapid, that gives an ill smack, that casts a vapour or ill savour, stinking.

1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 116 A sourish, saltish, and..vapid liquor.

1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. i. vi. 158 Now the Liquors, in which these are generated, do always..lose their Tast and Smell, and so become Vapid.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry xx. 585 Then away goes the brisk and pleasant Spirits and leave a vapid or sour Drink.

1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 208 It somewhat resembled vapid French white wine.

1788 F. Burney Diary 24 July (1842) IV. 188 He..made his own cold tea, and drank it weak and vapid.

1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 47 Vapid, old and worn out trees, producing vapid fruit.

1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 1 Nov. So are bottled mineral waters the vapidest of beverages.

figurative.1783 Ld. Bristol in A. Young Autobiogr. (1898) vi. 118 When you are vapid, if ever those pétillant spirits of yours are so, come and imbibe some..air at the Downhill.1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xiii. 120 Such vapid and flat daylight as filtered through the ground-glass windows.

b. Said of taste or flavour.

ΚΠ

1682 N. Grew Disc. Tasts in Plants vi. i. §9 in Anat. Plants 280 A soft Taste, is either Vapid, as in Watery Bodies, Whites of Eggs, Starch,..Or Unctuous, as in Oyls, Fat, &c.

1826 D. Booth Art of Brewing (ed. 2) 32 It gives to the beer a vapid disagreeable flavour.

1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. vii. 337 The exhilarating effect is produced at the sacrifice of fine flavour, and with the introduction of vapid bitterness.

1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 85 The tempting appearance of which, however, is not borne out by their flavour, which is mawkish and vapid.

c. Medicine. Of blood: Devoid of strength or vigour; weak, inert.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > types of blood > [adjective] > weak or inert

vapid1684

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xiv. 495 In such Diseases the whole mass of Blood..is otherwise grown vappid as it were.

1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §52 Softening and enriching the sharp and vapid blood.

1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 563 (note) Dr. Stevens thinks that the blood first loses its solid parts, and becomes thin; that it then becomes deprived of its saline principles, and turns black and vapid.

d. Of flowers: Scentless. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > inodorousness > [adjective]

unsmellingc1440

savourless1552

scentless1605

smell-lessa1625

inodorate1626

vapidc1750

unfetid1755

unscented1785

unsmelled1812

odourless1836

perfumeless1854

incenseless1856

deodorized1875

c1750 W. Shenstone Rural Elegance 235 To rear some breathless vapid flow'rs.

2. figurative. Devoid of animation, zest, or interest; dull, flat, lifeless, insipid:

a. Of talk, discourse, writings, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > vapid or insipid

pappy1597

watery1605

milk-and-water1753

vapid1758

unracy1782

swashy1796

washy1806

milk-and-waterish1807

wish-washy1814

insipid1845

1758 S. Johnson Idler 9 Dec. 281 Conversation would become dull and vapid.

a1763 W. Shenstone Ess. in Wks. (1765) II. 204 Vapid frivolous chit-chat serves to pass away the time.

1799 Monthly Rev. 30 211 The minute ceremonials and vapid common-place of the German theatre.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. iv. 57 The news of the morning become stale and vapid by the dinner-hour.

1865 H. Phillips Amer. Paper Currency II. 112 The newspapers contained as usual vapid and lengthy essays.

1885 Manch. Examiner 11 Feb. 4/7 There is..a great deal of vapid declamation on this subject, but it will soon die out.

b. Of amusements, pleasures, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > of things

heavy1601

bloodless?c1622

vapid1790

weighty1828

soggy1928

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 16 This town..begins to grow satiated with the uniform round of its vapid dissipations.

1799 H. More Strict. Mod. Syst. Fem. Educ. (ed. 4) I. 98 A sophisticated little creature, nursed in these forced, and costly, and vapid pleasures.

1828 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor VI. xxviii. 168 One continued round of vapid amusements, some of which are too light and trifling even to amuse a child at a common merriment.

1877 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Mignon I. i Mrs. Stratheden's ‘At Homes’ are very different from the general run of those vapid and dreary entertainments.

c. Of persons or places.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > bland or insipid

colourlessc1425

unsavouryc1449

wearish?1533

wersha1599

tasteless1603

tame1604

juiceless1620

water gruela1627

dry1632

soulless1632

frigid1643

vapid1656

insipida1684

fade1715

heartless1780

vapid1785

achromatic1799

sauceless1817

albuminous1858

antiseptic1891

flat-footed1899

unatmospheric1913

defanged1920

anodyne1933

spiceless1942

tea-party1961

nothingburger1965

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 393 The languid eye, the..wither'd muscle, and the vapid soul, Reproach their owner.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 197 I grew so dull, and vapid, and genteel.

1839 J. C. Maitland Lett. from Madras (1843) 272 Masulipatam was an ugly place;..nothing to be seen but wide sandy roads,..altogether, a most vapid sort of place.

1873 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (1876) 119 The adoption of the most vapid young lady's perversion of her mother-tongue.

d. In miscellaneous contexts.

ΚΠ

1796 F. Burney Camilla I. ii. v. 236 A scheme of human happiness, which no time, no repetition can make vapid to a feeling heart.

1818 W. Hazlitt On Vulgarity in Table-talk It is a vapid assumption of superiority.

1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. vii. 182 A smile is..in general vapid.

1861 G. J. Whyte-Melville Market Harborough 10 The vapid demeanour and cool assurance which triumph in a ball-room.

1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist viii. 515 If these pernicious views..be entertained..the renewal of humanity [is] a vapid and foolish dream.

†3. Of a damp or steamy character; dank; vaporous. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > moisture or humidity > [adjective] > humid

humidc1550

humoral1602

dampisha1642

vapid1660

damp1706

moothy1878

1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xxii. 169 A vapid Air, or Water rarified into vapor, may..emulate the elastical power of..true Air.

1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 18 Few (if any) vappid and stinking Exhalations can ascend from them to corrupt the Air.

1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 449 Rheita affirms, that he observed Jupiter to be invested round with a vapid Atmosphere.

Derivatives

ˈvapidism n. rare

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > blandness or insipidity

flashinessa1603

frigidity1642

insipidness1711

insipidity1715

vapidity1721

vapidness1727

corporateness1755

vapidism1831

milk-and-wateriness1834

saltlessness1867

1831 T. Carlyle Schiller in Fraser's Mag. Mar. 130 All critical guild-brethren now working diligently..in the calmer sphere of Vapidism or even Nullism.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	vapid
释义	vapidadj. Brit. /ˈvapɪd/, U.S. /ˈvæpəd/ Forms: Also 1600s vappid. Etymology: < Latin vapidus savourless, insipid. Compare obsolete French vapide (Cotgrave). 1. a. Of liquors, beverages, etc.: Devoid of briskness; failing to produce an agreeable effect on the palate; flat, insipid. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [adjective] wallowc897 smatchless?c1225 unsavoury?c1225 fresha1398 savourlessa1398 wearish1398 wershed1398 fond?c1430 unsavoured1435 palled1440 mildc1450 walsh1513 wallowish1548 dead1552 waterish1566 cold1585 flatten1594 seasonless1595 wersha1599 blown1600 flash1601 fatuous1608 tasteless1611 flat1617 insipid1620 ingustable1623 flashy1625 flatted1626 saltless1633 gustless1636 remiss1655 rheumatical1655 untasteable1656 vapid1656 exolete1657 distasted1662 vappous1673 insulse1676 toothless1679 mawkisha1697 intastable1701 waugh1703 impoignant1733 flavourless1736 instimulating1740 deadish1742 mawky1755 brineless1791 wishy-washy1791 keestless1802 shilpit1814 wish-washy1814 sapidless1821 silent1826 slushy1839 bland1878 spendsavour1879 wish-wash1896 dolled1917 spiceless1980 the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > bland or insipid colourlessc1425 unsavouryc1449 wearish?1533 wersha1599 tasteless1603 tame1604 juiceless1620 water gruela1627 dry1632 soulless1632 frigid1643 vapid1656 insipida1684 fade1715 heartless1780 vapid1785 achromatic1799 sauceless1817 albuminous1858 antiseptic1891 flat-footed1899 unatmospheric1913 defanged1920 anodyne1933 spiceless1942 tea-party1961 nothingburger1965 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Vapid, that gives an ill smack, that casts a vapour or ill savour, stinking. 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 116 A sourish, saltish, and..vapid liquor. 1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. i. vi. 158 Now the Liquors, in which these are generated, do always..lose their Tast and Smell, and so become Vapid. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry xx. 585 Then away goes the brisk and pleasant Spirits and leave a vapid or sour Drink. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 208 It somewhat resembled vapid French white wine. 1788 F. Burney Diary 24 July (1842) IV. 188 He..made his own cold tea, and drank it weak and vapid. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 47 Vapid, old and worn out trees, producing vapid fruit. 1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 1 Nov. So are bottled mineral waters the vapidest of beverages. figurative.1783 Ld. Bristol in A. Young Autobiogr. (1898) vi. 118 When you are vapid, if ever those pétillant spirits of yours are so, come and imbibe some..air at the Downhill.1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xiii. 120 Such vapid and flat daylight as filtered through the ground-glass windows. b. Said of taste or flavour. ΚΠ 1682 N. Grew Disc. Tasts in Plants vi. i. §9 in Anat. Plants 280 A soft Taste, is either Vapid, as in Watery Bodies, Whites of Eggs, Starch,..Or Unctuous, as in Oyls, Fat, &c. 1826 D. Booth Art of Brewing (ed. 2) 32 It gives to the beer a vapid disagreeable flavour. 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. vii. 337 The exhilarating effect is produced at the sacrifice of fine flavour, and with the introduction of vapid bitterness. 1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 85 The tempting appearance of which, however, is not borne out by their flavour, which is mawkish and vapid. c. Medicine. Of blood: Devoid of strength or vigour; weak, inert. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > types of blood > [adjective] > weak or inert vapid1684 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xiv. 495 In such Diseases the whole mass of Blood..is otherwise grown vappid as it were. 1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §52 Softening and enriching the sharp and vapid blood. 1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 563 (note) Dr. Stevens thinks that the blood first loses its solid parts, and becomes thin; that it then becomes deprived of its saline principles, and turns black and vapid. d. Of flowers: Scentless. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > inodorousness > [adjective] unsmellingc1440 savourless1552 scentless1605 smell-lessa1625 inodorate1626 vapidc1750 unfetid1755 unscented1785 unsmelled1812 odourless1836 perfumeless1854 incenseless1856 deodorized1875 c1750 W. Shenstone Rural Elegance 235 To rear some breathless vapid flow'rs. 2. figurative. Devoid of animation, zest, or interest; dull, flat, lifeless, insipid: a. Of talk, discourse, writings, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > vapid or insipid pappy1597 watery1605 milk-and-water1753 vapid1758 unracy1782 swashy1796 washy1806 milk-and-waterish1807 wish-washy1814 insipid1845 1758 S. Johnson Idler 9 Dec. 281 Conversation would become dull and vapid. a1763 W. Shenstone Ess. in Wks. (1765) II. 204 Vapid frivolous chit-chat serves to pass away the time. 1799 Monthly Rev. 30 211 The minute ceremonials and vapid common-place of the German theatre. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. iv. 57 The news of the morning become stale and vapid by the dinner-hour. 1865 H. Phillips Amer. Paper Currency II. 112 The newspapers contained as usual vapid and lengthy essays. 1885 Manch. Examiner 11 Feb. 4/7 There is..a great deal of vapid declamation on this subject, but it will soon die out. b. Of amusements, pleasures, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > of things heavy1601 bloodless?c1622 vapid1790 weighty1828 soggy1928 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 16 This town..begins to grow satiated with the uniform round of its vapid dissipations. View more context for this quotation 1799 H. More Strict. Mod. Syst. Fem. Educ. (ed. 4) I. 98 A sophisticated little creature, nursed in these forced, and costly, and vapid pleasures. 1828 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor VI. xxviii. 168 One continued round of vapid amusements, some of which are too light and trifling even to amuse a child at a common merriment. 1877 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Mignon I. i Mrs. Stratheden's ‘At Homes’ are very different from the general run of those vapid and dreary entertainments. c. Of persons or places. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > bland or insipid colourlessc1425 unsavouryc1449 wearish?1533 wersha1599 tasteless1603 tame1604 juiceless1620 water gruela1627 dry1632 soulless1632 frigid1643 vapid1656 insipida1684 fade1715 heartless1780 vapid1785 achromatic1799 sauceless1817 albuminous1858 antiseptic1891 flat-footed1899 unatmospheric1913 defanged1920 anodyne1933 spiceless1942 tea-party1961 nothingburger1965 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 393 The languid eye, the..wither'd muscle, and the vapid soul, Reproach their owner. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 197 I grew so dull, and vapid, and genteel. 1839 J. C. Maitland Lett. from Madras (1843) 272 Masulipatam was an ugly place;..nothing to be seen but wide sandy roads,..altogether, a most vapid sort of place. 1873 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (1876) 119 The adoption of the most vapid young lady's perversion of her mother-tongue. d. In miscellaneous contexts. ΚΠ 1796 F. Burney Camilla I. ii. v. 236 A scheme of human happiness, which no time, no repetition can make vapid to a feeling heart. 1818 W. Hazlitt On Vulgarity in Table-talk It is a vapid assumption of superiority. 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. vii. 182 A smile is..in general vapid. 1861 G. J. Whyte-Melville Market Harborough 10 The vapid demeanour and cool assurance which triumph in a ball-room. 1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist viii. 515 If these pernicious views..be entertained..the renewal of humanity [is] a vapid and foolish dream. †3. Of a damp or steamy character; dank; vaporous. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > moisture or humidity > [adjective] > humid humidc1550 humoral1602 dampisha1642 vapid1660 damp1706 moothy1878 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xxii. 169 A vapid Air, or Water rarified into vapor, may..emulate the elastical power of..true Air. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 18 Few (if any) vappid and stinking Exhalations can ascend from them to corrupt the Air. 1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 449 Rheita affirms, that he observed Jupiter to be invested round with a vapid Atmosphere. Derivatives ˈvapidism n. rare ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > blandness or insipidity flashinessa1603 frigidity1642 insipidness1711 insipidity1715 vapidity1721 vapidness1727 corporateness1755 vapidism1831 milk-and-wateriness1834 saltlessness1867 1831 T. Carlyle Schiller in Fraser's Mag. Mar. 130 All critical guild-brethren now working diligently..in the calmer sphere of Vapidism or even Nullism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1656
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