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Humdrum vs Vapid - What's the difference?

humdrum | vapid |

As adjectives the difference between humdrum and vapid

is that humdrum is lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring while vapid is lifeless, dull or banal.

As a noun humdrum

is the quality of lacking variety or excitement; dullness.

humdrum

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring.

    • Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of lacking variety or excitement; dullness.
  • * 2010 ,
    • I think it helped distract us from the dry, humdrum , and heat of the here and now.

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    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

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