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vapidity
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vapidity
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness |
| Synonyms: | aridity, asepticism, blandness, boredom, colorlessness, commonplaceness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, familiarity, flatness, flavorlessness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, lifelessness, monotomy, routine, sameness, slowness, staleness, sterileness, sterility, stodginess, tediousness, tedium, uninterestingness, vapidness, weariness |
| Main Entry: | platitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dull, overused saying |
| Synonyms: | banality, boiler plate, bromide, buzzword, chestnut, cliché, commonplace, corn, evenness, familiar tune, flatness, hackneyed saying, high camp, hokum, inanity, insipidity, monotony, motto, old chestnut, old story, potboiler, prosaicism, proverb, saw, shibboleth, stereotype, tag*, trite remark, triteness, triviality, truism, vapidity, verbiage |
| Antonyms: | coinage, nuance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dullness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | quality of being boring |
| Synonyms: | aridity, boredom, commonplaceness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, familiarity, flatness, insipidity, insipidness, lifelessness, monotomy, routine, sameness, slowness, staleness, tediousness, tedium, uninterestingness, vapidity |
| Antonyms: | action, interest, liveliness |
| Main Entry: | asepticism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness |
| Synonyms: | blandness, drabness, dreariness, flatness, flavorlessness, insipidity, insipidness, lifelessness, sterileness, sterility, vapidity, vapidness, weariness |
| Main Entry: | blandness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness |
| Synonyms: | boringness, colorlessness, drabness, dreariness, flatness, flavorlessness, innocuousness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, lifelessness, pallidness, uninterestingness, vapidity, vapidness |
| Main Entry: | drabness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness |
| Synonyms: | blandness, boringness, colorlessness, dinginess, dowdiness, dreariness, dryness, flatness, flavorlessness, gloominess, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, lifelessness, stodginess, vapidity, vapidness |
| Main Entry: | dreariness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gloominess |
| Synonyms: | blandness, boringness, colorlessness, depression, drabness, dryness, dullness, flatness, flavorlessness, forlornness, gloom, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, joylessness, lifelessness, melancholy, sadness, vapidity, vapidness |
| Main Entry: | flatness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prostration |
| Synonyms: | dejection, depression, exhaustion, fatigue, flat, languor, sluggishness, tiredness, vapidity, vapidness, weariness |
| Main Entry: | flatness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness |
| Synonyms: | blandness, colorlessness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, flavorlessness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, lifelessness, stodginess, vapidity, vapidness |
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