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Vapid vs Fugacious - What's the difference?

vapid | fugacious |

As adjectives the difference between vapid and fugacious

is that vapid is lifeless, dull or banal while fugacious is fleeting, fading quickly, transient.

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

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    Anagrams

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    fugacious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.
  • * 1906 , O. Henry, "", in The Four Million :
    • Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side. Homeless, they have a hundred homes.
  • * 1916 , George Edmund De Schweinitz, Diseases of the Eye , page 589:
    • Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimes fugacious , and often accompanied by intense headache
  • * 2011 , Michael Feeney Callan, Robert Redford: The Biography , Alfred A. Knopf (2011), ISBN 9780307272973, page xvii:
    • It may be that Redford's fugacious nature is not so mysterious, that it is studded in the artwork of the labs and the very stones of Sundance.

    Derived terms

    * fugaciously * fugaciousness

    Related terms

    * fugacity * fugue