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Vapid vs Vaporous - What's the difference?

vapid | vaporous |

As adjectives the difference between vapid and vaporous

is that vapid is lifeless, dull or banal while vaporous is relating to vapour; misty, foggy, obscure, insubstantial.

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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    vaporous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * vapourous

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to vapour; misty, foggy, obscure, insubstantial.
  • * 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
    • O hateful, vaporous , and foggy night!
  • * 1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
    • So whosoever shall entertain high and vaporous imaginations, instead of a laborious and sober inquiry of truth, shall beget hopes and beliefs of strange and impossible shapes.