Irrational vs Vapid - What's the difference?
irrational | vapid | Related terms |
Not rational; unfounded or nonsensical.
* July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
(mathematics, arithmetic, number theory, not comparable) Of a real number, that cannot be written as the ratio of two integers.
A real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.24:
Lifeless, dull or banal.
* 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 30 (ISBN 1857150570)
Tasteless, bland, or insipid.
Irrational is a related term of vapid.
As adjectives the difference between irrational and vapid
is that irrational is not rational; unfounded or nonsensical while vapid is lifeless, dull or banal.As a noun irrational
is a real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number.irrational
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an irrational decision
- Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
- The number π is irrational .
Antonyms
* (mathematics) rationalHyponyms
* (mathematics) transcendentalDerived terms
* irrational number * irrationality * irrationalize * irrationalizationNoun
(en noun)- The square root of 2, which was the first irrational to be discovered, was known to the early Pythagoreans, and ingenious methods of approximating to its value were discovered.
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.