VAPID

[va.pid] adj [L vapidus flat-tasting; akin to L vappa vapid wine and perh. to L vapor steam] (ca. 1656): lacking liveliness, tang, briskness, or force: flat, dull "a gossipy, ~ woman, obsessed by her own elegance --R. F. Delderfield" "London was not all ~ dissipation --V. S. Pritchett" syn see insipid -- va.pid.ly adv -- va.pid.ness n