Frigid vs Vapid - What's the difference?
frigid | vapid | Related terms |
Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.
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Chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal; impassive.
(colloquial) Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman.
Lifeless, dull or banal.
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Tasteless, bland, or insipid.
As adjectives the difference between frigid and vapid
is that frigid is very cold; lacking warmth; icy while vapid is lifeless, dull or banal.frigid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.}}
Antonyms
* fervidReferences
* *vapid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Then there was a little more trite conversation between Mr. Arabin and Mr. Harding; trite, and hard, and vapid , and senseless.