| 单词 |
vapidity |
| 释义 |
vapidity|vəˈpɪdɪtɪ|
[f. prec. + -ity.]
1. The fact or quality of being vapid.
1721Bailey, Vapidity, deadness, flatness, a being palled. 1771Burke Corr. (1844) I. 256 After a violent ferment in the nation, as remarkable a deadness and vapidity has succeeded. 1822Examiner 347/1 [It] threw such a gloom and vapidity over all that we never saw the beautiful opera with so little pleasure. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. xx. 507 Master Froth strays from the right path from sheer vapidity. 1879Farrar St. Paul II. 536 note, Surely such passages as these ought to be more than adequate to defend the Pastoral Epistles from the charge of vapidity.
2. A vapid remark, idea, feature, etc.
1848Blackw. Mag. LXIII. 266 Their pet historian..cannot make a single speech without dragging in..some vapidity about the Revolution Settlement. 1877C. Geikie Christ lv. (1879) 665 Teaching..so searching and practical, compared with the vapidities of the Rabbis. 1889Pall Mall G. 11 May 7 Those upon whom the crudities and vapidities of the ‘commission’ portraits..jar. |
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