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Platitudinous vs Vapid - What's the difference?

platitudinous | vapid |

As adjectives the difference between platitudinous and vapid

is that platitudinous is characterised by cliches or platitudes while vapid is lifeless, dull or banal.

platitudinous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Characterised by cliches or platitudes.
  • *2005 , (Christopher Hitchens), "AndrĂ© Malraux: One Man's Fate", New York Times Book Review , 10 Apr 2005:
  • *:The meeting was brief and platitudinous , but in later accounts [...] Malraux turned it into a major summit of great minds.

    • 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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