vapid

The word “vapid” has 2 syllables: va-pid

It's pronounced as /ˈvæpɪd/


What is synonym and antonym for vapid?

In the thesaurus, “vapid” has 99 synonyms and 65 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for vapid along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for vapid

  • Milquetoast
  • arid
  • aseptic
  • barren
  • blah
  • bland
  • blank
  • boring
  • colorless
  • common
  • commonplace
  • cumbersome
  • dead
  • drab
  • dreary
  • driveling
  • drudging
  • dry
  • dull
  • dullish
  • dusty
  • earthbound
  • flat
  • flat tire
  • flavorless
  • gray
  • grey
  • heavy
  • ho-hum
  • humdrum
  • inane
  • inanimate
  • innocuous
  • insipid
  • jading
  • jejune
  • leaden
  • least
  • lifeless
  • limp
  • longsome
  • lumbering
  • milk-and-water
  • mind-numbing
  • monochromatic
  • monotonous
  • nothing
  • nowhere
  • numbing
  • old
  • ordinary
  • pallid
  • palling
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • pleasureless
  • plodding
  • pokey
  • poky
  • ponderous
  • prosaic
  • prosy
  • slow
  • soggy
  • spiritless
  • stale
  • sterile
  • stodgy
  • stuffy
  • stupid
  • suspenseless
  • tame
  • tasteless
  • tedious
  • tepid
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • undramatic
  • uneventful
  • unexceptional
  • unexciting
  • unimaginative
  • uninspiring
  • uninteresting
  • unnewsworthy
  • unpalatable
  • unrewarding
  • unsensational
  • unspectacular
  • unsurprising
  • vacant
  • vacuous
  • watery
  • weak
  • wearisome
  • weary
  • wearying
  • wishy-washy
  • zero

Antonyms for vapid

  • absorbing
  • alluring
  • amazing
  • amusing
  • animating
  • arresting
  • astonishing
  • astounding
  • attracting
  • attractive
  • awesome
  • beguiling
  • bewitching
  • breathtaking
  • captivating
  • charming
  • diverting
  • electrifying
  • enchanting
  • energizing
  • engaging
  • engrossing
  • enlivening
  • entertaining
  • enthralling
  • entrancing
  • exciting
  • exhilarating
  • eye-opening
  • fabulous
  • fascinating
  • galvanizing
  • gripping
  • hair-raising
  • inspiring
  • interesting
  • intriguing
  • invigorating
  • involving
  • lively
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • mesmerizing
  • moving
  • poignant
  • provocative
  • pungent
  • rip-roaring
  • riveting
  • rousing
  • sensational
  • sharp
  • spectacular
  • spellbinding
  • spicy
  • stimulating
  • stirring
  • strong
  • surprising
  • suspenseful
  • tantalizing
  • thrilling
  • touching
  • wonderful
  • wondrous

Meanings of vapid

  • adjective
    1. Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.
    2. Lifeless, dull, or banal.
    3. Tasteless, bland, or insipid.

Example Sentences

  • The novel was criticized for its vapid characters and lack of depth.
  • She found the conversation at the party to be rather vapid, filled with empty small talk.
  • The movie received negative reviews for its vapid plot and uninspired dialogue.
  • The teacher encouraged her students to avoid writing vapid essays by injecting their own unique perspectives.
  • Despite his initial charm, she soon realized he had nothing substantial to say, dismissing him as vapid.

On this page you'll find 164 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to vapid, such as: Milquetoast, absorbing, alluring, amazing, amusing, animating, arid.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

abused

  • a slave to
  • abandoned
  • aberrant
  • abject
  • abnormal
  • affronted
  • archaic
  • arid
  • aspersed
  • assailed
  • attacked
  • bad-mouthed
  • bashed
  • beat up on
  • belabored
  • belittled
  • berated
  • big yawn
  • blackguarded
  • blah
  • blasphemed
  • blasted
  • bled
  • browbeaten
  • brutalized
  • bullied
  • burdened
  • burned
  • burnt
  • castigated
  • chastised
  • cheated
  • chid
  • chided
  • colorless
  • commercialized
  • commodified
  • common
  • commonplace
  • contorted
  • corrupt
  • corrupted
  • cowed
  • criticized
  • crushed
  • cursed
  • dead
  • debased
  • debauched
  • defiled
  • degraded
  • depraved
  • desecrated
  • despairing
  • despoiled
  • destitute
  • deviant
  • deviating
  • disheartened
  • dismal
  • disparaged
  • dispirited
  • distorted
  • distressed
  • downcast
  • downtrodden
  • dreary
  • driveling
  • dry
  • enslaved
  • excoriated
  • execrated
  • exploited
  • familiar
  • flat
  • fleeced
  • foreign
  • fulminated
  • grotesque
  • hackneyed
  • harangued
  • harassed
  • harmed
  • harried
  • have-not
  • heavy
  • hectored
  • helpless
  • ho-hum
  • hoary
  • hopeless
  • humdrum
  • hurt
  • ill-treated
  • ill-used
  • impaired
  • imprecated
  • injured
  • insipid
  • insulted
  • intimidated
  • jejune
  • jerked around
  • kicked around
  • kinky
  • lambasted
  • leveraged
  • libeled
  • libelled
  • lit into
  • longwinded
  • maltreated
  • manhandled
  • manipulated
  • messed over
  • mid
  • milked
  • misapplied
  • misemployed
  • misguided
  • mishandled
  • mismanaged
  • mistreated
  • misused
  • molested
  • monotonous
  • monstrous
  • oft-repeated
  • oppressed
  • ordinary
  • out-of-date
  • outraged
  • overburdened
  • overcharged
  • overworked
  • persecuted
  • perverted
  • pimped
  • plain
  • pointless
  • polluted
  • potshot
  • profaned
  • prolix
  • prosaic
  • prostituted
  • prosy
  • put down
  • ravished
  • rebuked
  • rejected
  • repetitious
  • repetitive
  • reprimanded
  • reviled
  • routine
  • run-of-the-mill
  • sailed into
  • sandbagged
  • savaged
  • scathed
  • scolded
  • scorned
  • sick
  • skinned
  • slammed
  • slandered
  • slurred
  • soaked
  • soporific
  • stale
  • stock
  • stuck
  • stupid
  • subservient
  • suppressed
  • tainted
  • taken advantage of
  • tame
  • tedious
  • tied into
  • tired
  • tiresome
  • took apart
  • tormented
  • tortured
  • traded on
  • traduced
  • trashed
  • trite
  • twisted
  • tyrannized
  • underfoot
  • unhealthy
  • unimaginative
  • uninspiring
  • unnatural
  • used
  • usual
  • usual thing
  • vapid
  • vicious
  • victimized
  • vilified
  • violated
  • vitiate
  • vitiated
  • vituperated
  • walked on
  • warped
  • whipped
  • wicked
  • worked
  • worn-out
  • wronged
  • wrought

banal

  • arid
  • barren
  • blah
  • bland
  • boring
  • bromidic
  • canned
  • cardboard
  • cliche
  • cobwebby
  • colorless
  • common
  • commonplace
  • conventional
  • cookie-cutter
  • cornball
  • cornfed
  • corny
  • derivative
  • drab
  • dreary
  • drudging
  • dry
  • dull
  • dull as dishwater
  • dumb
  • dusty
  • everyday
  • flat
  • hack
  • hackney
  • hackneyed
  • heavy
  • ho-hum
  • hokey
  • humdrum
  • imitative
  • inane
  • innocuous
  • inoffensive
  • insipid
  • jading
  • jejune
  • leaden
  • lifeless
  • mild
  • milk-and-water
  • mind-numbing
  • monotonous
  • moth-eaten
  • mundane
  • musty
  • namby-pamby
  • noplace
  • normal
  • nothing
  • nowhere
  • numbing
  • obligatory
  • old
  • old hat
  • old-fashioned
  • ordinary
  • pabulum
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • platitudinal
  • platitudinous
  • ponderous
  • prosaic
  • ready-made
  • rote
  • routine
  • shopworn
  • soft
  • square
  • stale
  • standard
  • stereotyped
  • stock
  • stodgy
  • stuffy
  • stupid
  • subdued
  • tame
  • tedious
  • threadbare
  • timeworn
  • tired
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • tried-and-true
  • tripe
  • trite
  • twice-told
  • typical
  • undramatic
  • unexceptional
  • unexciting
  • unimaginative
  • uninspired
  • uninspiring
  • uninteresting
  • unoriginal
  • unrewarding
  • usual
  • vapid
  • watery
  • weak
  • wearisome
  • weary
  • wearying
  • well-worn
  • wishy-washy
  • zero

dead

  • abeyant
  • absolute
  • absolutely
  • abundantly
  • all
  • all in
  • all of
  • all over
  • all the way
  • all-out
  • altogether
  • anesthetized
  • antiquated
  • apathetic
  • arid
  • arrant
  • arrested
  • as the crow flies
  • asleep
  • at length
  • at rest
  • authentic
  • aweary
  • baked
  • baleful
  • bankrupted
  • barren
  • basically
  • beat
  • beaten
  • benumbed
  • bereft of life
  • bitten the dust
  • bland
  • blank
  • bleak
  • bleary
  • bloodless
  • blooming
  • blunted
  • bodacious
  • boney
  • bony
  • boring
  • bought the farm
  • breathless
  • broken
  • broken-down
  • buried
  • burned-out
  • burnt-out
  • bushed
  • by and large
  • bygone
  • bypast
  • cadaverous
  • callous
  • categoric
  • categorical
  • categorically
  • checked out
  • chiefly
  • chilled
  • classic
  • clean
  • cocainized
  • cold
  • collapsed
  • comatose
  • complete
  • completely
  • confirmed
  • constant
  • consumed
  • consummate
  • copiously
  • crashing
  • cut off
  • damn
  • damned
  • dated
  • deadened
  • deadly
  • deadness
  • death
  • deathly
  • debilitated
  • deceased
  • definite
  • defunct
  • dehydrated
  • demised
  • departed
  • depleted
  • desert
  • desolate
  • dilute
  • diminished
  • direct
  • directly
  • done
  • done for
  • doomed
  • dormant
  • down the line
  • down to the ground
  • downright
  • drained
  • dreadful
  • dried-up
  • droughty
  • drowsy
  • drugged
  • dry
  • due
  • dull
  • dulled
  • dying
  • endangered
  • endless
  • enervate
  • enervated
  • enfeebled
  • enough
  • entire
  • entirely
  • erased
  • eternal
  • even
  • exactly
  • exhausted
  • expended
  • expired
  • extinct
  • extraordinary
  • extreme
  • faded
  • fading
  • fair
  • fallen
  • fallow
  • fast
  • fatal
  • fateful
  • fatigued
  • fell
  • finished
  • flat
  • flat-out
  • flavorless
  • for fair
  • free
  • frightful
  • frigid
  • full
  • fully
  • generally
  • generously
  • genuine
  • ghostlike
  • ghostly
  • gone
  • gone to meet maker
  • gone to reward
  • grave
  • greatly
  • habitual
  • hands down
  • hardscrabble
  • heartily
  • heavy
  • hopeless
  • horrible
  • huge
  • idle
  • imperiled
  • imperilled
  • impoverished
  • in whole
  • inactive
  • inanimate
  • inert
  • infertile
  • inhospitable
  • inoperable
  • inoperative
  • insensate
  • insensible
  • insensitive
  • insipid
  • interrupted
  • inveterate
  • jaded
  • kaput
  • kaputt
  • killer
  • knackered
  • lapsed
  • largely
  • late
  • latent
  • lessened
  • lethal
  • lethargic
  • lifeless
  • lifelessness
  • limp
  • liquidated
  • loggy
  • logy
  • lost
  • low
  • macabre
  • main
  • mainly
  • missing
  • more or less
  • moribund
  • mortal
  • mortality
  • mortuary
  • mostly
  • murderous
  • nipped
  • no more
  • nonexistent
  • nonextant
  • nonfunctional
  • nonfunctioning
  • nonliving
  • not existing
  • nothingness
  • numb
  • numbed
  • obsolete
  • obtunded
  • off
  • offed
  • on the shelf
  • out
  • out of commission
  • out-and-out
  • outright
  • overall
  • overfatigued
  • overtaxed
  • overthrown
  • overworked
  • parched
  • passed away
  • perfect
  • perfectly
  • perished
  • perpetual
  • pestilent
  • phantom
  • plain
  • played out
  • plumb
  • plump
  • pooped
  • poor
  • predominantly
  • predominately
  • primarily
  • principally
  • profound
  • prostrate
  • pure
  • pushing up daisies
  • quiescent
  • quite
  • rainless
  • rank
  • real
  • reduced
  • regular
  • reposing
  • resting in peace
  • right
  • ruined
  • run-down
  • sapped
  • savorless
  • sear
  • senseless
  • sere
  • sheer
  • simple
  • sleep
  • sleepy
  • slow
  • sluggish
  • soundly
  • spectral
  • spent
  • spiritless
  • stark
  • stiff
  • still
  • stillborn
  • stone
  • stone-cold
  • straight
  • straight-out
  • straightly
  • straightway
  • stupefied
  • substantially
  • sunbaked
  • sunk
  • superlative
  • supreme
  • surpassing
  • suspended
  • tapped out
  • tasteless
  • terminated
  • terrible
  • terrific
  • thin
  • thirsty
  • thorough
  • thoroughgoing
  • thoroughly
  • through and through
  • tired
  • to bits
  • to pieces
  • to the hilt
  • to the max
  • torpid
  • total
  • totally
  • unadulterated
  • unalive
  • unalloyed
  • unanimated
  • unconditional
  • unconscious
  • uncultivable
  • undeviatingly
  • undying
  • unfeeling
  • unfertile
  • unflavored
  • uninteresting
  • unmitigated
  • unoccupied
  • unproductive
  • unqualified
  • unqualifiedly
  • unremitting
  • unresponsive
  • unrestricted
  • unsavory
  • untillable
  • unusable
  • unused
  • unworkable
  • used up
  • useless
  • utter
  • utterly
  • vacant
  • vanished
  • vapid
  • veritable
  • very
  • washed-out
  • waste
  • waterless
  • watery
  • weak
  • weakened
  • wearied
  • weary
  • well
  • wholly
  • wide
  • wiped out
  • wooden
  • worn
  • worn to a frazzle
  • worn-out

deadpan

  • aloof
  • apathetic
  • blank
  • catatonic
  • cold
  • cool
  • detached
  • dull
  • empty
  • enigmatic
  • enigmatical
  • expressionless
  • impassive
  • impenetrable
  • indifferent
  • inexpressive
  • inscrutable
  • motionless
  • mysterious
  • nobody home
  • numb
  • phlegmatic
  • poker-faced
  • reserved
  • restrained
  • reticent
  • serious
  • static
  • still
  • stolid
  • stony
  • straight-faced
  • taciturn
  • unreadable
  • unresponsive
  • vacant
  • vacuous
  • vague
  • vapid
  • wooden

debilitating

  • annoying
  • aseptic
  • barren
  • blah
  • blank
  • bothersome
  • breaking down
  • common
  • commonplace
  • crippling
  • cumbersome
  • damaging
  • demoralizing
  • depleting
  • depressing
  • devitalizing
  • disabling
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dispiriting
  • draining
  • dullish
  • earthbound
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • etiolating
  • exhausting
  • fatiguing
  • gray
  • grey
  • hamstringing
  • harming
  • hurting
  • impairing
  • impoverishing
  • inanimate
  • incapacitating
  • injuring
  • invaliding
  • irksome
  • irritating
  • laying up
  • longsome
  • lumbering
  • ordinary
  • overburdening
  • pallid
  • palling
  • paralyzing
  • pedantic
  • pleasureless
  • plodding
  • pokey
  • poky
  • prosaic
  • prostrating
  • prosy
  • sapping
  • softening
  • soggy
  • spiritless
  • sterile
  • suspenseless
  • taxing
  • tepid
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • undramatic
  • uneventful
  • unexceptional
  • unexciting
  • unimaginative
  • uninspiring
  • unmanning
  • unnewsworthy
  • unrewarding
  • unsensational
  • unspectacular
  • unsurprising
  • vapid
  • washing out
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • wearing down
  • wearing out
  • wearying

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