Vacuous \Vac"u*ous\ (v[a^]k"[-u]*[u^]s), a. [L. vacuus. See
Vacant.]
Empty; unfilled; void; vacant.
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Boundless the deep, because I am who fill
Infinitude; nor vacuous the space. --Milton.
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That the few may lead selfish and vacuous days. --J.
Morley.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
vacuous
adj 1: complacently or inanely foolish [syn: asinine, fatuous,
inane, mindless]
2: devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow
victory"; "vacuous comments" [syn: empty, hollow]
WordNet (r) 2.0
111 Moby Thesaurus words for "vacuous":
airy, asinine, awkward, bare, barren, bland, blank, blankminded,
bleached, callow, calm, catchpenny, characterless, clear, devoid,
dumb, empty, empty-headed, empty-minded, empty-pated,
empty-skulled, existless, fatuous, featureless, flimsy, foolish,
fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, futile, gauche, green,
groping, hollow, idle, ignorant, inane, incogitant, inexperienced,
innocent, insipid, jejune, know-nothing, lacking, light, minus,
missing, naive, negative, nescient, nirvanic, nonexistent,
nugacious, nugatory, null, null and void, oblivious, otiose,
passive, quietistic, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, raw, relaxed,
scatterbrained, shallow, silly, simple, slender, slight,
strange to, superficial, tentative, thoughtfree, thoughtless,
tranquil, trifling, trite, trivial, unacquainted, unapprized,
uncomprehending, unconversant, unenlightened, unexisting,
unfamiliar, unideaed, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated,
unintellectual, unintelligent, unknowing, unoccupied, unposted,
unreasoning, unrelieved, unripe, unsure, unthinking, unversed,
vacant, vain, vapid, void, white, windy, with nothing inside,
without being, without content
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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