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vacuous
[ vak-yoo-uhs ]
adjective
- without 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.
vacuous
/ ˈvækjʊəs /
adjective
- containing nothing; empty
- bereft of ideas or intelligence; mindless
- characterized by or resulting from vacancy of mind
a 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
- ˈvacuousness, noun
- ˈvacuously, adverb
Other Words From
- vacu·ous·ly adverb
- vacu·ous·ness noun
- non·vacu·ous adjective
- non·vacu·ous·ly adverb
- non·vacu·ous·ness noun
- un·vacu·ous adjective
- un·vacu·ous·ly adverb
- un·vacu·ous·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of vacuous1
Example Sentences
Conservative shadow home secretary Chris Philp has previously criticised the UK government's approach, labelling their plans to reduce small boat crossings "weak and vacuous".
It's the story of Cohn, who at the top of his game adopts and mentors the vacuous and malleable Donald Trumpov.
Instead, public discussions of racist and white supremacist behavior and values all too often default to silly, vacuous, and intellectually immature discussions of intent and what is in some white person’s heart or bones.
They’ve been pretty vacuous, like the recent forays into “how have artists around the world used different kinds of stone?” and “what is a 17th-century Dutch collector’s cabinet?”
As I wrote last year, Bankman-Fried exploited the vacuity of crypto by slathering it over with what sounded like profundities but were vacuous at their core.
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