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Lackluster vs Vapid - What's the difference?

lackluster | vapid |

As adjectives the difference between lackluster and vapid

is that lackluster is lacking brilliance or intelligence while vapid is lifeless, dull or banal.

lackluster

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Alternative forms

* lacklustre

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Lacking brilliance or intelligence
  • Having no shine or lustre; dull
  • Not exceptional; not worthy of special merit, attention, or interest; having no vitality
    • The actor gave a lackluster performance in his latest film.

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    vapid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lifeless, dull or banal.
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    • 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.

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    * vapidity * vapidly * vapidness

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