different between lackluster vs vapid

English

Alternative forms

• lacklustre (UK & Commonwealth)

Etymology

From lack +? luster.

Pronunciation

Adjective

lackluster (comparative more lackluster, superlative most lackluster) (American spelling)

1. Lacking brilliance or intelligence.
2. Having no shine or lustre; dull.
   • 1885, William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961, Chapter XIX, p. 273,

     He sat looking at her with lack-lustre eyes. The light suddenly came back into them.

3. Not exceptional; not worthy of special merit, attention, or interest; having no vitality.

   The actor gave a lackluster performance in his latest film.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:bore

Translations

Noun

lackluster (countable and uncountable, plural lacklusters) (American spelling)

1. (uncountable) Lack of brightness or points of interest.
2. (countable) A person or thing of no particular brilliance or intelligence.

Anagrams

• lack-lustre, lacklustre

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