vacuous
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- adjective
- /ˈvæk.ju.əs/
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- The lecture was so vacuous that I struggled to stay awake.
- vacuous space
Examples
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After their first directive had been accomplished, they turned their attention to the grim task of filling the vacuous void at the point guard position left in the wake of Aaron Brooks' exit via free agency.
Blog text (26) -
Black Emperor took the stage inside the vacuous warehouse space.
Blog text (29) -
The death of communism left what remained of Yugoslav identity in a vacuous abyss.
Academic text (1997) -
It strikes me that your whole argument reflects either a vacuous ignorance of the true state of affairs or deliberate dishonesty.
Blog text (5) -
Instead of a vacuous vessel for vehicular or pedestrian movement, Tahrir had become a space embodying Egyptian popular will; its resolve dictated the course of politics.
Academic text (2018) -
After the storm, the streets felt vacuous and abandoned.
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The novel's plot was vacuous, offering nothing of real significance.
Synonyms
Having nothing inside, like an empty box
A thing that has no physical form and cannot be touched
Antonyms
How Empty
Surface Forms
Morphology
vacuous = vacant (transparent) = vacu + ous
Formed from the stem meaning 'empty' plus the adjectival suffix '-ous', so a learner who knows 'vacant' or 'vacuum' and '-ous' can readily infer the literal meaning.
Etymology
The word vacuous comes from the Latin vacuus, meaning 'empty'. It shares the same root as vacuum and vacant, so when we talk about a space being vacuous we mean it is literally 'containing nothing'.