vacuous
/ˈvækju.əs/
vacuous adjective: empty; void; lacking meaningful content.
Adjective
vacuous (comparative more vacuous, superlative most vacuous)
- Empty; void; lacking meaningful content.
- vacuous expression
- vacuous remark
- Synonyms:
- vacuitous, empty, vacant, empty as a pauper's purse, empty as the tomb on Easter, clean, leer, toom, unfilled, vacuumlike
- Showing a lack of thought or intelligence; vacant.
- Near-synonym: fatuous
- Synonyms:
- empty-headed, brainless, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, soft, beefheaded, beetle-headed
vacuous meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
vacuous in Tamil
- வெறுமையான
vacuous in Urdu
- احمق, بےمغز, گھامڑ
vacuous in Bengali
- শূন্য, বুদ্ধিহীন
vacuous in Malayalam
- unintelligent, silly, inane
- ബുദ്ധിയില്ലാത്ത, ഭാവശൂന്യമായ, ബാലിശമായ, നിർബ്ബുദ്ധി, ഹതബുദ്ധി, കഥയില്ലാത്ത
More languagesFewer languages
- vacuous in Kannada
- ಬರಿದಾದ, ತೆರಪಾದ, ಖಾಲಿ, ಶೂನ್ಯ
- vacuous in Arabic
- فَارِغ fāriḡ
Examples of vacuous in a sentence
- The movie was criticized for its vacuous dialogue.
- She gave him a vacuous smile.
Synonyms of vacuous
- vacuitous
- empty
- vacant
- empty as a pauper's purse
- empty as the tomb on Easter
- clean
- unfilled
- vacuumlike
- void
- empty-headed
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- brainless
- addlebrained
- addlepated
- airheaded
- bee-brained
- beef-witted
- soft
- beefheaded
- beetle-headed
- birdbrained
- blockheaded
- Boeotian
- boneheaded
- boofheaded
- braindead
- bubbleheaded
- buffle-headed
- bullet-headed
- cerebrally challenged
- childish
- chowderheaded
- chuckleheaded
- crackbrained
- cretinous
- daft
- dense
- dented
- dim-bulb
- dim-headed
- dim-witted
Forms of vacuous
| comparative | more vacuous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most vacuous |
Origin of vacuous
Learned borrowing from Latin vacuus (“empty, vacant”) + -ous.
Words formed from vacuous
Phrases with vacuous
Questions about vacuous
- What does vacuous mean?
- Vacuous means empty; void; lacking meaningful content.
- What is vacuous in Tamil?
- Vacuous in Tamil is வெறுமையான. See Vacuous meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use vacuous in a sentence?
- The movie was criticized for its vacuous dialogue.
- What part of speech is vacuous?
- Vacuous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce vacuous?
- Vacuous is pronounced /ˈvækju.əs/.
Words near vacuous in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: vacuous (page history and authors); vacuous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vacuous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vacuous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vacuous (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); vacuous (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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