Vapid vs Austere - What's the difference?
vapid | austere |
Lifeless, dull or banal.
* 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 30 (ISBN 1857150570)
Tasteless, bland, or insipid.
Grim or severe in manner or appearance
Lacking trivial decoration; not extravagant or gaudy
As adjectives the difference between vapid and austere
is that vapid is lifeless, dull or banal while austere is austere.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.
Derived terms
* vapidity * vapidly * vapidnessSynonyms
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*austere
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- The headmistress was an austere old woman.
- The interior of the church was as austere as the parishioners were dour.