Empty-headed

Definition: Empty-headed

Empty-headed

Adjective

1. Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles".

Date "empty-headed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Synonyms: Empty-headed

Synonyms: airheaded (adj), dizzy (adj), featherbrained (adj), giddy (adj), lightheaded (adj), light-headed (adj), silly (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Empty-headed

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Ignorance	Shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate; unread, uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish; empty-headed,dizzy, wooly-headed; pedantic;
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Empty-headed

English words defined with "empty-headed": Shallow-brained. (references)

Specialty definitions using "empty-headed": Dundreary. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Empty-headed

"Empty-headed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Empty-headed" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	13	97,576

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Empty-headed

Language		Translations for "empty-headed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Greek		φυρόμυαλος (scatter-brained). (various references)

Hungarian		széllelbélelt (empty headed), üresfejű (featherbrain, puppy, rattlebrained, vacuous). (various references)

Pig Latin		empty-headeday

Russian		невежественный (clueless, ignorant, rude, unintelligent), легкомысленный (empty headed, fast, flighty, flippant, frivolous, harum scarum, light, light minded, lightheaded, light-headed, light-minded, rakish, scatter-brained, slap-happy, unreflecting, unthinking), пустоголовый (addle-brained, addle-pate, empty headed, idleheaded, idle-headed, rattlebrained, rattle-brained). (various references)

Vietnamese		dốt, đầu óc rỗng tuếch. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Empty-headed

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	leviculus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Empty-headed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-h-m-p-t-y"
	-4 letters: adeemed, deadeye, empathy.
	-5 letters: damped, deathy, deemed, headed, heaped, heated, heeded, heptad, meated, metepa, pedate, tamped, teamed, teemed, temped, tempeh, themed.
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