vapid
lacking liveliness, interest, or flavor; dull
Word origin: From Latin vapidus, flat or spiritless.
Vapid in a sentence
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The conversation was so vapid that I lost interest within minutes.
The novel's vapid dialogue gave the characters no inner life and the plot no momentum.
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Verbal · Text Completion
Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.
Using “vapid” well
Vapid means lacking liveliness, interest, or flavor, dull to the point of being flat. It is the opposite of lively or stimulating, and it overlaps closely with insipid.
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