vacuous
[ vak-yoo-uh s ]
/ ˈvæk yu əs /
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 of vacuous
1645–55; < Latin
vacuus empty; see
-ous
OTHER WORDS FROM vacuous
Words nearby vacuous
vacuity,
vacuolate,
vacuolated,
vacuolation,
vacuole,
vacuous,
vacutome,
vacuum,
vacuum activity,
vacuum aspiration,
vacuum bottle
Example sentences from the Web for vacuousness
He hated TV for chasing fads and its vacuousness, but also because it paid him too little, notes Itzkoff dryly.
Then he looked up at Victoria with something like vacuousness.
A Bed of Roses |W. L. George
British Dictionary definitions for vacuousness
vacuous
/ (ˈvækjʊəs) /
adjective
containing nothing; empty
bereft of ideas or intelligence; mindless
characterized by or resulting from vacancy of mind
a vacuous gaze
indulging in no useful mental or physical activity; idle
logic maths
(of an operator or expression) having no import; idle: in (x) (John is tall) the quantifier (x) is vacuous
Derived forms of vacuous
vacuously, adverb vacuousness, nounWord Origin for vacuous
C17: from Latin
vacuus empty, from
vacāre to be empty