Vapid vs Barren - What's the difference?
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Lifeless, dull or banal.
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Tasteless, bland, or insipid.
(label) Unable to bear children; sterile.
Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation.
* (1800–1859)
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Bleak.
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, passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
* (1796-1859)
* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 2, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
, title= Mentally dull; stupid.
* (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet), III.ii. ca. 1602
An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
As adjectives the difference between vapid and barren
is that vapid is lifeless, dull or banal while barren is unable to bear children; sterile.As a noun barren is
an area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.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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*barren
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- I silently wept as my daughter's husband rejected her. What would she do now that she was no longer a maiden but also barren ?
- barren mountain tracts
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- brilliant but barren reveries
- Some schemes will appear barren of hints and matter.
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- Set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too.
Synonyms
* sterileAntonyms
* fertile * fruitfulNoun
(en noun)- The pine barrens are a site lonely enough to suit any hermit.