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adjectivewithout contents; empty: the vacuous air. lacking in ideas or intelligence: a vacuous mind. expressing or characterized by a lack of ideas or intelligence; inane; stupid: a vacuous book. purposeless; idle: a vacuous way of life. Origin of vacuous1645–55; from Latin vacuus “empty”; see -ous OTHER WORDS FROM vacuousvac·u·ous·ly, adverbvac·u·ous·ness, nounnon·vac·u·ous, adjectivenon·vac·u·ous·ly, adverb non·vac·u·ous·ness, nounun·vac·u·ous, adjectiveun·vac·u·ous·ly, adverbun·vac·u·ous·ness, noun WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH vacuousvacant, vacuous Words nearby vacuousvacuity, vacuolate, vacuolated, vacuolation, vacuole, vacuous, vacutome, vacuum, vacuum activity, vacuum aspiration, vacuum bottle Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for vacuousSmith speaks with perfect articulation and a vacuous undertone laces her words. Shakespeare’s Movie Magic|Marina Watts, Malcolm Jones|April 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST The assumption that feminism comes in a neat, Xeroxable package is gravely outmoded and vacuous. Despite What You May Think, Miley Cyrus and Rihanna Are Feminists|Rawiya Kameir|November 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST Speaking of Daisy, Mulligan does as elegant a job as possible portraying such a vacuous character. The Great Gatsby, Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Is a Relentless Assault on the Senses|Marlow Stern|May 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST In America, however, there is a stubborn strain of vacuous unawareness that reflects no credit on American society. Ignorant America|Tunku Varadarajan|August 30, 2010|DAILY BEAST
That vacuous content which engrosses the body after long indisposition, held her imperatively. A Mountain Woman and Others|(AKA Elia Wilkinson) Elia W. Peattie But they were nowhere to be seen; the faces were stolid, or indifferent, or intent, or vacuous. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story|Various He was in his ghostly incognito, for he always traveled lightly in vacuous and doubtful regions. The Book of Gud|Dan Spain The counsel of the vacuous Mr. Fopling followed him to ring in his ears like words of guidance. The President|Alfred Henry Lewis Vacuous refers to the condition of being empty or vacant, regarded as continuous or characteristic. English Synonyms and Antonyms|James Champlin Fernald
British Dictionary definitions for vacuous
adjectivecontaining nothing; empty bereft of ideas or intelligence; mindless characterized by or resulting from vacancy of minda vacuous gaze indulging in no useful mental or physical activity; idle logic maths (of an operator or expression) having no import; idle: in (x) (John is tall) the quantifier (x) is vacuous Derived forms of vacuousvacuously, adverbvacuousness, nounWord Origin for vacuousC17: from Latin vacuus empty, from vacāre to be empty Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to vacuousblank, drained, dull, dumb, foolish, half-baked, inane, minus, shallow, silly, stupid, superficial, vacant, void, uncomprehending, airheaded, birdbrained, emptied, lamebrained, unreasoning |