Fatuous vs Vapid - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between fatuous and vapid

is that fatuous is obnoxiously stupid, vacantly silly, content in one's foolishness while vapid is lifeless, dull or banal.

(en adjective)

Obnoxiously stupid, vacantly silly, content in one's foolishness.

To compare the intelligence levels of men and women is itself fatuous .

* Refers especially to foolishness and disregard of reality.

* (obnoxiously stupid) childish, imbecilic, inane, insipid, puerile

(en adjective)

Lifeless, dull or banal.

* 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 30 (ISBN 1857150570)

Then there was a little more trite conversation between Mr. Arabin and Mr. Harding; trite, and hard, and vapid , and senseless.

Tasteless, bland, or insipid.

* vapidity * vapidly * vapidness

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