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vapid

'væpid5 senses · 506 ms
Level C2GRE
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adj/ˈvæp.ɪd//ˈveɪp.ɪd/
  1. 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. 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. 3

    Tasteless, bland, or insipid.

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