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- Dictionaryvacuous/ˈvakjʊəs/
adjective
- 1. having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless: "a vacuous smile" Similar Opposite
- 2. empty. archaic
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The meaning of VACUOUS is emptied of or lacking content. How to use vacuous in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Vacuous.
VACUOUS definition: 1. not expressing or showing intelligent thought or purpose: 2. not expressing or showing…. Learn more.
not showing purpose, meaning, or intelligence; empty: To seem real to your readers, your characters must not be vacuous, but complex human beings with ordinary difficulties and goals. (Definition of vacuous from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Vacuous definition: without contents; empty. See examples of VACUOUS used in a sentence.
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, mathematics. (of an operator or expression) having no import; idle: in ( x) (John is tall) the quantifier (x) is vacuous.
adj. 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) logic maths (of an operator or expression) having no import; idle: in (x) (John is tall) the quantifier (x) is vacuous. 6.
Reserved for the harmlessly stupid and truly meaningless, vacuous is a smart-sounding way to describe something dumb. Celebrity gossip and reality TV are usually pretty vacuous, even if they're fun. If someone smiles at you in a way that seems fake or empty, you could describe the smile as vacuous.
