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childlike

English

Etymology

child +? -like

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?t?a?ldla?k/

Adjective

childlike (comparative more childlike, superlative most childlike)

  1. Innocent and trustful; credulous; artless.
    Synonyms: credulous, unworldly; see also Thesaurus:naive
  2. Of, like, or suitable for a child.
    Synonyms: childish, childly; see also Thesaurus:childlike

Quotations

Derived terms

  • childlikeness

Related terms

  • childish

Translations

References

  • childlike in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • childlike in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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vapid

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vapidus (“flat, vapid”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /?væp.?d/, /?ve?p.?d/

Adjective

vapid (comparative more vapid, superlative most vapid)

  1. Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.
  2. Lifeless, dull, or banal.
    • 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, page 30 ?ISBN
      Then there was a little more trite conversation between Mr. Arabin and Mr. Harding; trite, and hard, and vapid, and senseless.
  3. Tasteless, bland, or insipid.

Synonyms

  • See Thesaurus:boring, Thesaurus:wearisome, Thesaurus:soporific

Derived terms

  • vapidity
  • vapidly
  • vapidness

Translations

Anagrams

  • pavid

Estonian

Noun

vapid

  1. nominative plural of vapp

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