Vacuous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Vacuous \Vac"u*ous\ (v[a^]k"[-u]*[u^]s), a. [L. vacuus. See
     {Vacant}.]
     Empty; unfilled; void; vacant.
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           Boundless the deep, because I am who fill


           Infinitude; nor vacuous the space.       --Milton.
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           That the few may lead selfish and vacuous days. --J.
                                                    Morley.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  vacuous
       adj 1: complacently or inanely foolish [syn: {asinine}, {fatuous},
              {inane}, {mindless}]
       2: devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow
          victory"; "vacuous comments" [syn: {empty}, {hollow}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  111 Moby Thesaurus words for "vacuous":
     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