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Tepid vs Vapid - What's the difference?

tepid | vapid |

As adjectives the difference between tepid and vapid

is that tepid is lukewarm; neither warm nor cool while vapid is lifeless, dull or banal.

tepid

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.
    • I'm drinking a cup of tepid water.
  • Uninterested; exhibiting little passion or eagerness.
    • He gave me a tepid response to the proposal.

    Synonyms

    * (neither warm nor cool) lukewarm * (exhibiting little passion) uninterested, lukewarm * See also

    Derived terms

    * tepidness

    Related terms

    * tepidity

    Anagrams

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    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 , ,

    Anagrams

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