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Vapid vs Inanimate - What's the difference?

vapid | inanimate |

As adjectives the difference between vapid and inanimate

is that vapid is lifeless, dull or banal while inanimate is lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object .

As a noun inanimate is

something that is not alive.

As a verb inanimate is

(obsolete) to animate .

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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    inanimate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object .
  • Not being, and never having been alive.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=5 citation , passage=I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.}}
  • (grammar) Not animate.

    • Antonyms

    * (grammar) animate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is not alive.

    • Verb

    (inanimat)
  • (obsolete) To animate.
    • (John Donne)
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