Word of the Day:
vacant
What It Means
a vacant look in her eyes
Vacant in Context
“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.”
Did You Know?
From Old French vacant, from Latin vacāns.
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