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Infantile vs Vapid - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between infantile and vapid

is that infantile is pertaining to infants while vapid is lifeless, dull or banal.

infantile

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to infants.
    • infantile paralysis
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=9 citation , passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile . It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}
  • Childish; immature.

    • Synonyms

    * (childish) puerile

    Derived terms

    * infantilely * infantilize

    vapid

    English

    Adjective

    (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.

    • Derived terms

    * vapidity * vapidly * vapidness

    Synonyms

    * See , ,

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