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Vacuous definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VAC'UOUS, a. Empty; unfilled; void.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: devoid of intelligence [syn: asinine, fatuous, inane, mindless, vacuous]
2: devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments" [syn: empty, hollow, vacuous]
3: devoid of matter; "a vacuous space"
4: void of expression; "a blank stare" [syn: blank, vacuous]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin vacuus Date: circa 1660 1. emptied of or lacking content 2. marked by lack of ideas or intelligence ; stupid, inane <a vacuous mind> <a vacuous movie> 3. devoid of serious occupation ; idle Synonyms: see empty • vacuously adverb • vacuousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 lacking expression (a vacuous stare). 2 unintelligent (a vacuous remark). 3 empty. Derivatives: vacuity n. vacuously adv. vacuousness n. Etymology: L vacuus empty (as VACATE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vacuous Vac"u*ous, a. [L. vacuus. See Vacant.] Empty; unfilled; void; vacant. Boundless the deep, because I am who fill Infinitude; nor vacuous the space. --Milton. That the few may lead selfish and vacuous days. --J. Morley.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe a person or their comments as vacuous, you are critical of them because they lack intelligent thought or ideas. Male models are not always so vacuous as they are made out to be. ADJ [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

airy, asinine, awkward, bare, barren, bland, blank, blankminded, bleached, callow, calm, catchpenny, characterless, clear, devoid, dumb, empty, empty-headed, empty-minded, empty-pated, empty-skulled, existless, fatuous, featureless, flimsy, foolish, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, futile, gauche, green, groping, hollow, idle, ignorant, inane, incogitant, inexperienced, innocent, insipid, jejune, know-nothing, lacking, light, minus, missing, naive, negative, nescient, nirvanic, nonexistent, nugacious, nugatory, null, null and void, oblivious, otiose, passive, quietistic, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, raw, relaxed, scatterbrained, shallow, silly, simple, slender, slight, strange to, superficial, tentative, thoughtfree, thoughtless, tranquil, trifling, trite, trivial, unacquainted, unapprized, uncomprehending, unconversant, unenlightened, unexisting, unfamiliar, unideaed, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, unintellectual, unintelligent, unknowing, unoccupied, unposted, unreasoning, unrelieved, unripe, unsure, unthinking, unversed, vacant, vain, vapid, void, white, windy, with nothing inside, without being, without content