vacant
/ˈveɪkənt/
vacant adjective: not occupied; empty.
Adjective
vacant (comparative more vacant, superlative most vacant)
- Not occupied; empty.
- a vacant room
- a vacant consulate
- Synonyms:
- available, empty, free, uninhabited, unoccupied, beingless, desert, deserted, howling, desolate
- Not present; absent.
- And Pierre felt that never, never would he be able to embrace Isabel with the mere brotherly embrace; while the thought of any other caress, which took hold of any domesticness, was entirely vacant from his uncontaminated soul, for it had never consciously intruded there.1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities
- Blank.
- a vacant page
- Synonyms:
- empty, featureless
- Showing no intelligence or interest.
- a vacant stare
- a vacant look in her eyes
- Synonyms:
- vacuous
vacant meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
vacant in Hindi
- not occupied
- रिक्त rikt
vacant in Tamil
- காலி இடம்
vacant in Urdu
- فارغ, غیرآباد, غیرمقبوضہ, خالی, لاوارث, معطل
vacant in Bengali
- vacant
- খালি khali
More languagesFewer languages
- vacant in Malayalam
- ഒഴിഞ്ഞ oḻiñña
- vacant in Kannada
- ಬರಿದು, ಬಕ್ಕಟ, ಕೆಲಸವಿಲ್ಲದ, ಅನಿಸಿಕೆಯಿಲ್ಲದ
- vacant in Odia
- ଖାଲି khāli
- vacant in Arabic
- خَالِيّ ḵāliyy, خَاوِي ḵāwī, فَارِغ fāriḡ
- vacant in Indonesian
- lowong
- vacant in Vietnamese
- trống, rỗng
Examples of vacant in a sentence
- The office of the Secretary of State is cleaned when it is vacant.
- When the office of Secretary of State is vacant, its duties fall upon an official within the department.
- Dark, dirty, with workers going through the motions, heads bowed, vacant looks in their eyes.
Synonyms of vacant
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Forms of vacant
| comparative | more vacant |
|---|---|
| superlative | most vacant |
Origin of vacant
From Old French vacant, from Latin vacāns.
Words formed from vacant
- nonvacant
- semivacant
- situations vacant
- unvacant
- vacancy
- vacant lot
- vacantly(adverb)
- vacantness
Phrases with vacant
Questions about vacant
- What does vacant mean?
- Vacant means not occupied; empty.
- What is vacant in Hindi?
- Vacant in Hindi is रिक्त (rikt). See Vacant meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is vacant?
- Vacant is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce vacant?
- Vacant is pronounced /ˈveɪkənt/.
Words near vacant in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: vacant (page history and authors); vacant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vacant (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); খালি (Bengali) (page history and authors); ഒഴിഞ്ഞ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); vacant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଖାଲି (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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