vacuously
yu adjective
1.
without contents; empty: the vacuous air.
2.
lacking in ideas or intelligence: a vacuous mind.
3.
expressing or characterized by a lack of ideas or intelligence; inane; stupid: a vacuous book.
4.
purposeless; idle: a vacuous way of life.
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vacuous (ˈvækjʊəs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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 | |
| 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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