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empty-headed
[ emp-tee-hed-id ]
/ ˈɛmp tiˈhɛd ɪd /
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adjective
lacking intelligence or knowledge; foolish; brainless.
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Origin of empty-headed
First recorded in 1640–50
OTHER WORDS FROM empty-headed
emp·ty-head·ed·ness, nounWords nearby empty-headed
empty,
empty calorie,
empty calories,
empty cow,
empty-handed,
empty-headed,
empty morph,
empty nest,
empty nester,
empty-nest syndrome,
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Words related to empty-headed
brainless,
dizzy,
featherbrained,
frivolous,
giddy,
harebrained,
ignorant,
illiterate,
inane,
know-nothing,
silly,
skittish,
stupid,
uneducated,
unschooled,
untaught,
vacant,
vacuous How to use empty-headed in a sentence
Here she is in June saying “Trans politics and feminism have never been headed to the same place.”
Starting under Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, embassies headed by career diplomats increased in number.
Rodriguez now headed home to his kids, as did thousands of other police parents.
He defied the atheism of communism and the empty religious practices of Putinism.
Otherwise, we will be but celebrating an empty holiday, missing its true meaning altogether.
But he forgot the stagnant town, the bald-headed man at the club window, the organ and "The Manola."
But the nasty part of the whole thing was, that Haggard had won eleven thousand pounds from a weak-headed boy.
Herein he found an empty stall that was dark enough not to be seen, and still afforded sufficient light to read in.
When the funeral was over, and they returned to their desolate home, at the sight of the empty cradle Ramona broke down.
A quite young child will, for example, pretend to do something, as to take an empty cup and carry out the semblance of drinking.
British Dictionary definitions for empty-headed
adjective
lacking intelligence or sense; frivolous
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