un vacuous

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.

Origin:
1645–55; < Latin vacuus empty; see -ous

Related forms

vac·u·ous·ly, adverb

vac·u·ous·ness, noun

non·vac·u·ous, adjective

non·vac·u·ous·ly, adverb

non·vac·u·ous·ness, noun

un·vac·u·ous, adjective

un·vac·u·ous·ly, adverb

un·vac·u·ous·ness, noun

Can be confused: vacant, vacuous, vapid.

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vacuous (ˈvækjʊəs)

—*adj*
1.	containing nothing; empty
2.	bereft of ideas or intelligence; mindless
3.	characterized by or resulting from vacancy of mind: a vacuous gaze
4.	indulging in no useful mental or physical activity; idle
5.	logic, maths (of an operator or expression) having no import; idle: in (x) (John is tall) the quantifier (x) is vacuous

[C17: from Latin vacuus empty, from vacāre to be empty]

'vacuously

—*adv*

'vacuousness

—n

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Word Origin & History

vacuous

1648, "empty," from L. vacuus "empty, void, free" (see vacuum). Figurative sense of "empty of ideas" is from 1848.

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