vapidity

  • 111lifelessness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A lack of excitement, liveliness, or interest i asepticism, blandness, colorlessness, drabniss, dreariness, dryness, dullness, flatness, flavor lessness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, ster ileness, sterility,… …

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  • 112sterileness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A lack of excitement, liveliness, or interest: asepticism, blandness, colorlessness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, dullness, flatness, flavor lessness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, life lessness, sterility,… …

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  • 113stodginess — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A lack of excitement, liveliness, or interest: asepticism, blandness, colorlessness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, dullness, flatness, flavor lessness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, life lessness, sterileness,… …

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  • 114washiness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The state or quality of being insipid: blandness, innocuousness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, vapidity, vapidness, wateriness. Informal: wishy washiness. See EXCITE, TASTE …

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  • 115wateriness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The state or quality of being insipid: blandness, innocuousness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, vapidity, vapidness, washiness. Informal: wishy washiness. See EXCITE, TASTE …

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  • 116wishy-washiness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Informal. The state or quality of being insipid: blandness, innocuousness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, vapidity, vapidness, washiness, wateriness. See EXCITE, TASTE …

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  • 117vacuity — [[t]vækju͟ːɪti[/t]] N UNCOUNT: usu with poss (disapproval) If you refer to the vacuity of something or someone, you are critical of them because they lack intelligent thought or ideas. [FORMAL] His vacuity was a handicap in these debates. ...a… …

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  • 118vapid — [ vapɪd] adjective offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging. Derivatives vapidity noun vapidly adverb Origin C17 (orig. in sense lacking in flavour ): from L. vapidus …

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  • 119blatherskite — n. (Colloq. U. S. and Scotland.) 1. Blusterer, vaporer, prater, vapid talker, voluble dunce, noisy fool. 2. Vaporing, voluble vapidity. See bluster …

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  • 120vapid — adjective formal lacking intelligence, interest, or imagination: vapid piped music vapidly adverb vapidness noun (U) vapidity noun (U) …

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