Vacuous

Definition: Vacuous

Vacuous

Adjective

1. Complacently or inanely foolish.

2. Devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "vacuous" was first used: 1648. (references)

Etymology: Vacuous \Vac"u*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression vacuus. See Vacant.]. (references)

Synonyms: Vacuous

Absence

Empty, void; vacant, vacuous; untenanted, unoccupied, uninhabited; tenantless; barren, sterile; desert, deserted; devoid; uninhabitable.

Incogitancy

Adjective: vacant, unintellectual, unideal, unoccupied, unthinking, inconsiderate, thoughtless, mindless, no-brain, vacuous; absent; (inattentive); diverted; irrational; narrow-minded.

Unsubstantiality

Vacant, vacuous; empty; eviscerated; blank, hollow; nominal; null; inane.

Crosswords: Vacuous

Vacuous. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Beginning with "vacuous": vacuous-looking.

Albanian

i zbrazët (blank, empty, hollow, vacant, void), i pakuptim (absurd, empty, inane, insignificant, meaningless, pointless, senseless, unnamed), i pajetë (dead, dead alive, inanimate, lifeless, spiritless), bosh (bare, bladdery, blank, empty, fiddling, gassy, hollow, hot air, idle, inane, milk and water, open, thin, trifling, unoccupied, vacant, void, white). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فارغ (barren, blank, empty, flatulent, hollow, idle, inane, leisure, meaningless, pointless, senseless, silly, stupid, vain, windy), ‏أبله (asinine, ass, brainless, coot, cuckoo, daw, dense, dim witted, dullard, fatuous, feeble minded, gaga, gawky, goofy, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, lemon, mad, patsy, screwed, sheepish, silly, sod, sodden, softy, soppy, stick in the mud, stupid, vacant, wood-headed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, cockscomb, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, hebetate, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, purblind, sappy, senseless, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, whacked, witless, wooden-headed), необитаван (devoid of inhabitants, uninhabited, vacant), безсъдържателен (empty, idle, inane, insignificant, jejune, meager, meagre, pithless, sterile, unmeaning, vain, watery), безсмислен (absurd, aimless, futile, inane, insensate, inutile, meaningless, mindless, needless, nonsense, nonsensical, pointless, preposterous, purposeless, senseless, sorry, stupid, tomfool, unmeaning, vain), безизразен (stony, toneless, unmeaning), празен (airy, airy fairy, bare, barren, blank, empty, hollow, idle, inane, light, loose, piffling, pithless, purposeless, sounding, superficial, uncharged, unsubstantial, untenanted, vacant, vain, void, yeasty). (various references)

Czech

tupý (blunt, brutish, cloddish, dense, dozy, dull, empty headed, indocile, mindful, obtuse, pointless, stolid, stupid, thickheaded, torpid, vacant), prázdný (bare, blank, clean, disused, empty, hollow, inane, light, meaningless, unoccupied, vacant, vapid, void, windy). (various references)

Farsi 

پوچ (Absurd, Airy, Empty, Hollow, Inane, Inoperative, Invalid, Nude, Nugatory, Sawdust, Unmeaning, Vain, Void), کم عقل , تهی (Barren, Basic, Devoid, Empty, Hollow, Inane, Indigent, Jejune, Leer, Toom, Vain, Void), خالی (Arid, Destitute, Empty, Indigent, Leer, Mere, Sunken, Unoccupied, Vacant, Void), بیمعنی (Nonsense, Senseless), بی مفهوم . (various references)

French

vide (vacancy, vacant), bête. (various references)

German

leer (bare, blank, blankly, blanks, devoid, empty, free, frothily, frothy, hollow, idle, no-op, specious, unseeing, untenanted, vacant, vacuously, vain, vapid, void). (various references)

Greek 

κενόσ (blank, devoid, inane, vacant, void), μωρόσ (crass, driveller, fatuous, food, fool, foolish, goofy, idiotic, moron, ninny, simp, simpleton, spoony, witless, zany), ανέκφραστοσ (deadpan, ineffable, inexpressible, unexpressed, unutterable). (various references)

Hebrew 

חסר תכלית (aimless, pointless). (various references)

Hungarian

bárgyú (dunderhead, imbecile, imbecilic, stupefied). (various references)

Indonesian

kosong (bare, blank, nonexistent). (various references)

Italian

vuoto - vacuo - insignificante, vuoto (bare, blank, blankness, devoid, emptiness, empty, empty space, frothily, frothy, gap, hollow, shallow, space, vacancy, vacant, vacuum, vide, void), vacuo (empty, hollow, inane, vacant). (various references)

Manx

tootagh, follym (barren, barren as mind, blank, blank as cartridge, disengaged, empty, empty-handed, expressionless, flat, formal, free, hollow, inane, platitudinous, run down, shallow, vacant, void, waste, waste in town). (various references)

Pig Latin

acuousvay.(various references)

Portuguese

vazio (addle, bare, blank, blankness, chasm, claptrap, concave, emptiness, empty, hollow, inane, unoccupied, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, vain, void), tolo (addle-brained, addled, corny, cuddy, daft, dull, finical, fool, foolish, gaby, goat, gowk, gull, hard-hearted, inept, insane, insensate, looby, loony, mad, madman, naïve, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, pigeon, pumpkin-head, screwy, silly, simpleton, softhead, softy, spoon, spoony, stock, stupe, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, wacky, witless), sem idéias, sem expressão (blank, blankly, deadpan), estúpido (addle-brained, addled, ass, blockhead, blockish, blunderer, blunderhead, boeotian, booby, bovine, chuckle-head, chump, crass, dense, dim-witted, dolt, dull, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fatuous, featherbrained, fool, foolish, goofy, jolterhead, lubber, lubber-head, lubberly, lumpish, mindless, mutton-head, mutton-headed, numskull, oafish, obtuse, pigheaded, silly, slow, stock, stupe, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, unintelligent). (various references)

Russian 

пустой (addle, barren, blank, chaffy, do-nothing, empty, feather-brained, feckless, fiddling, foppish, frivolous, frothy, gassy, gossipy, hollow, light, light-headed, null, sunken, vacant, vapid). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prazan (blank, clean, cored, empty, idle, inane, leer, unoccupied, vacant, void), bezizražajan (expressionless, featureless). (various references)

Spanish

vacuo (empty, hiatus, hollow, void), vacío (bare, blank, devoid, dummy, emptiness, empty, gap, hiatus, hollow, light, vacant, vacuum, vast, void), necio (apish, clod, fatuous, featherbrained, fool, foolish, loggerhead, ludicrous, poor, silly, simper). (various references)

Swedish

tom (bladdery, blank, clear, empty, hollow, inane, vacant, void). (various references)

Turkish

ifadesiz (blank, dead pan, expressionless, inexpressive, sphinxlike, straight-faced, toneless, unmarked, unmeaning, vacant), dalgın (absent, absent minded, abstracted, deep, distrait, dreamy, engrossed, far away, far off, faraway, glassy, lost, meditative, moony, pensive, plunged in thought, preoccupied, reflective, ruminant, ruminative, self-absorbed, stargazer, thoughtful, unheedful, vacant, vague, wandering, wistful, woolgathering), boş (airy, barren, blank, bootless, captious, chimerical, desert, disengaged, empty, expressionless, fallacious, flat, for hire, free, frivolous, frothy, futile, gaseous, hollow, idle, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, invalid, leisure, meaningless, nugatory, null, pointless, puerile, punk, purposeless, spare, tenantless, thin, trumpery, unbuilt, unbuilt-on, unengaged, unfounded, unoccupied, unprofitable, unrecorded, unwritten-on, vacant, vain, void, waste, windy, wishywashy, without any foundation, without foundation, yeasty), anlamsız (absurd, barren, blank, dead pan, empty, expressionless, for the birds, frivolous, grotesque, inane, incoherent, inept, inexpressive, insane, insignificant, meaningless, nonsense, nonsensical, of no significance, pointless, purposeless, ridiculous, senseless, sodden, unmeaning, unreasonable, vain, yeasty), amaçsız (aimless, at an end, objectless, pointless, purposeless, vagabond, wanton, without cause). (various references)

Ukrainian

бездіяльний (deedless, dormant, easeful, effortless, inactive, indolent, killed, otiose, shiftless, torpid), пустий (addle, airy, bald, bare, barren, baseless, begging, chaffy, empty, frothy, otiose, sounding, vacant, vain, void, yeasty), порожній (bare, empty, hollow, inane, unoccupied). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vô công r�"i nghề, trống rỗng trống rỗng; ngớ ngẩn; ngây dại rỗi, rỗng (bare, empty, fustian, high-sounding). (various references)

vacuus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "vacuous": vacuously, vacuousness, vacuousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Vacuous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: vaccous, vaccuous, vacious, vacous, vaculos, vacuos, vacuou, vacuui, vacuuous, vacuus, vasuous, vatuous, vcauous, vicous, viscuous, vocuous. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: avos, ocas, vacs, vaus.

-4 letters: avo, cos, oca, ova, sac, sau, sou, vac, vas, vau.

-5 letters: as, os, so, us.

+2 letters: vacuously.

+3 letters: curvaceous, curvacious.

+4 letters: vacuousness.

+5 letters: overcautious, unchivalrous.