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vacuously

vacuously adverb: in a vacuous manner, lacking thought.

Adverb

vacuously (comparative more vacuously, superlative most vacuously)

  1. In a vacuous manner, lacking thought.
    • Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, "Oh God! Oh God!" […]1915, Jack London, The Little Lady of the Big House
    • He scowled vacuously, keeping at bay a horrible enlightenment on the mechanism of effort, which must drive into being a resistance equal to itself.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 211
  2. Because of being a vacuous truth.
    • The statement is vacuously true because P is false and P implies Q.

Forms of vacuously

comparativemore vacuously
superlativemost vacuously

Origin of vacuously

From vacuous + -ly.

Questions about vacuously

What does vacuously mean?
Vacuously means in a vacuous manner, lacking thought.
What part of speech is vacuously?
Vacuously is an adverb.

Words near vacuously in the dictionary

  1. vacuosities
  2. vacuosity
  3. vacuous
  4. vacuous truth
  5. vacuous truths
  6. vacuously
  7. vacuousness
  8. vacupuncture
  9. vacutained
  10. vacutainer
  11. vacutainers

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