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Vapid vs Plodding - What's the difference?

vapid | plodding |

As adjectives the difference between vapid and plodding

is that vapid is lifeless, dull or banal while plodding is progressing slowly and laboriously.

As a verb plodding is

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As a noun plodding is

slow, laborious progress.

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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    plodding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Progressing slowly and laboriously.

    • Derived terms

    * ploddingly * ploddingness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Slow, laborious progress.
  • * (Jean Ingelow)
    • I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow / (Like plants in dungeons, reaching feelers out), / And ploddings wary and slow.