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vapidness (encz) | vapidness,nudnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Vapidness (gcide) | Vapid \Vap"id\ (v[a^]p"[i^]d), a. [L. vapidus having lost its
life 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.
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A cheap, bloodless reformation, a guiltless liberty,
appear flat and vapid to their taste. --Burke.
[1913 Webster] -- Vap"id*ly, adv. -- Vap"id*ness, n.
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vapidness (wn) | vapidness
n 1: the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated [syn:
jejunity, jejuneness, tameness, vapidity,
vapidness] |
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Vapidness (gcide) | Vapid \Vap"id\ (v[a^]p"[i^]d), a. [L. vapidus having lost its
life 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.
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A cheap, bloodless reformation, a guiltless liberty,
appear flat and vapid to their taste. --Burke.
[1913 Webster] -- Vap"id*ly, adv. -- Vap"id*ness, n.
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