vacuous

American  

[vak-yoo-uhs] / ˈvæk yu əs /

adjective

1. without contents; empty.

   the vacuous air.

2. lacking in ideas or intelligence.

   a vacuous mind.

3. expressing or characterized by a lack of ideas or intelligence; inane; stupid.

   a vacuous book.

4. purposeless; idle.

   a vacuous way of life.

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vacuous British  

/ ˈvækjʊəs /

adjective

1. containing nothing; empty

2. bereft of ideas or intelligence; mindless

3. characterized by or resulting from vacancy of mind

   a vacuous gaze

4. indulging in no useful mental or physical activity; idle

5. logic maths (of an operator or expression) having no import; idle: in (x) (John is tall) the quantifier (x) is vacuous

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Other Word Forms

• nonvacuous adjective
• nonvacuously adverb
• nonvacuousness noun
• unvacuous adjective
• unvacuously adverb
• unvacuousness noun
• vacuously adverb
• vacuousness noun

Etymology

Origin of vacuous

1645–55; from Latin vacuus “empty”; -ous

Example Sentences

As for the music itself, while it was enough to convince some fans, the lack of actual human creative input made it sound "vacuous and pristine", she says.

From BBC

For Lamar, the decadelong rap battle stems from his lifelong disdain for gangster cosplay and the vacuous monetizing of Black culture.

From Los Angeles Times

The show was looking for his female counterpart, someone they originally envisioned as “a yummy mummy cupcake blogger who’s vacuous and drives a Range Rover,” Brooker says.

From Los Angeles Times

They’ve been pretty vacuous, like the recent forays into “how have artists around the world used different kinds of stone?” and “what is a 17th-century Dutch collector’s cabinet?”

From Los Angeles Times

As I wrote last year, Bankman-Fried exploited the vacuity of crypto by slathering it over with what sounded like profundities but were vacuous at their core.

From Los Angeles Times