vacant

[ vey-kuh nt ]

/ ˈveɪ kənt /

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adjective

having no contents; empty; void: a vacant niche.

having no occupant; unoccupied: no vacant seats on this train.

not in use: a vacant room.

devoid of thought or reflection: a vacant mind.

characterized by, showing, or proceeding from lack of thought or intelligence: a vacant answer; a vacant expression on a face.

not occupied by an incumbent, official, or the like, as a benefice or office.

free from work, business, activity, etc.: vacant hours.

characterized by or proceeding from absence of occupation: a vacant life.

devoid or destitute (often followed by of): He was vacant of human sympathy.

Law.

having no tenant and devoid of furniture, fixtures, etc. (distinguished from unoccupied): a vacant house.
idle or unutilized; open to any claimant, as land.
without an incumbent; having no heir or claimant; abandoned: a vacant estate.

Origin of vacant

1250–1300; Middle English < Latin vacant- (stem of vacāns, present participle of vacāre to be empty); see -ant

SYNONYMS FOR vacant

1, 2 See empty.

5 blank, vacuous, inane.

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OTHER WORDS FROM vacant

va·cant·ly, adverb va·cant·ness, noun non·va·cant, adjective non·va·cant·ly, adverb

un·va·cant, adjective un·va·cant·ly, adverb

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH vacant

vacant vacuous vapid

Words nearby vacant

vaad, vaal, vaasa, vac, vacancy, vacant, vacant possession, vacate, vacation, vacation bible school, vacation pay

Example sentences from the Web for vacant

Set among the vacant houses of suburban New Mexico, the film offers a bleak perspective on the possibility of growth and renewal.

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This is a tremendous find, not just because he discovered all these first veterans of our first war in a vacant lot.

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They are often set in quasi-rural areas, with vast parking lots and vacant land surrounding them.

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It takes a lot of hard work to appear that vacant, but Pedrad had been perfecting Kim since long before she landed on SNL.

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More than 50 percent of the homes are vacant, and most of the stores shuttered long ago.

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The kindness of some monks supplied him with his first workshop, which was the vacant cell of a monastery.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 |Various
Some are dreaming; you see it in the vacant eye, the listless face, the expression that betrays hopeless intoxication.

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That over, for the rest of the evening and till milking time in the morning the meadows will be vacant.

The Hills and the Vale |Richard Jefferies
There was a vacant chair by her side, and he was glad to occupy it.

Lothair |Benjamin Disraeli
Perhaps the vacant place at the board day by day was an offence to the conservative eye of Mistress Susan.

The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn |Evelyn Everett-Green

British Dictionary definitions for vacant

vacant

/ (ˈveɪkənt) /

adjective

without any contents; empty

(postpositive foll by of) devoid (of something specified)

having no incumbent; unoccupied a vacant post

having no tenant or occupant a vacant house

characterized by or resulting from lack of thought or intelligent awareness a vacant stare

(of time, etc) not allocated to any activity a vacant hour in one's day

spent in idleness or inactivity a vacant life

law (of an estate, etc) having no heir or claimant

Derived forms of vacant

vacantly, adverb vacantness, noun

Word Origin for vacant

C13: from Latin vacāre to be empty

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