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Puerile vs Vapid - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between puerile and vapid

is that puerile is characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; confer: puellile while vapid is lifeless, dull or banal.

puerile

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; confer : puellile.
  • Childish; trifling; silly.
  • * (rfdate) De Quincey:
    • The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents.
  • * 1927 , , page 79:
    • From the table he had received the gout; from the alcove a tendency to convulsions; from the grandeeship a pride so vast and puerile that he seldom heard anything that was said to him and talked to the ceiling in a perpetual monologue; from the exile, oceans of boredom, a boredom so persuasive that it was like pain,—he woke up with it and spent the day with it, and it sat by his bed all night watching his sleep.
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    • Synonyms

    * (childish): juvenile, silly, trifling,

    Derived terms

    * puerilism * puerility

    See also

    * boyish * yobbish * youthful ----

    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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