Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vanillafied

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: vanil-lafied
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Generic, safe, or anodyne.

Informal

verb

simple past and past participle of vanillafy

Example Sentences

"Well, look no further. "The First Wives Club," which opens Friday, is the latest and arguably the slickest chick flick to reduce its adult male characters to inconsequential quivery-lipped milksops. It's not so much male-bashing as all-out male-demolition, a happy-faced Hollywood excuse to trot out one vanillafied stereotype after another. Men are stupid! Men are venal! Men are libidinous reptiles!"
"Just when you're ready to dismiss the main character, Theodorous Melville, as simply another hopelessly vanillafied brother, debut writer and director Kwyn Bader ups the comedic ante."
"Costa may just be the fresh blast of honest-to-goodness, not-playing-games, old-school-meets-new-school, funky, fuzzy-haired soul that this vanillafied, predigested, pop-tart-obsessed media culture has been looking for."

Etymology

From vanilla + -fy + -ed.

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

more vanillafied (comparative) most vanillafied (superlative)

Questions

What does vanillafied mean?: Generic, safe, or anodyne.
Where does vanillafied come from?: From vanilla + -fy + -ed.

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