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unexciting

English

Etymology

un- +? exciting

Adjective

unexciting (comparative more unexciting, superlative most unexciting)

  1. Not exciting
    • 1992 April 5, "The Full House", Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 2:
      B. Wooster: Of all the places on this great planet of ours, West Neck, Long Island, has chosen to be the most unexciting. The last time anything remotely interesting happened here was in 1842, when a tree fell over. They still talk about it in the village.

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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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