Staid vs Vapid - What's the difference?
staid | vapid |
Serious, organized, and professional; sober
* 1915 , ":
*:He wondered what had become of the boys who were his companions: they were nearly thirty now; some would be dead, but others were married and had children; they were soldiers and parsons, doctors, lawyers; they were staid men who were beginning to put youth behind them.
Always fixed in the same location; stationary
Lifeless, dull or banal.
* 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 30 (ISBN 1857150570)
Tasteless, bland, or insipid.
As a noun staid
is trail, track or staid can be stately woman.As an adjective vapid is
lifeless, dull or banal.staid
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Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (serious) composed, regular, sedate, steadyAntonyms
* (serious) fanciful, volatile, wildAnagrams
* ----vapid
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Then there was a little more trite conversation between Mr. Arabin and Mr. Harding; trite, and hard, and vapid , and senseless.