"vacuous" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈvækju.əs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-vacuous.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more vacuous [comparative], most vacuous [superlative]
Etymology: Latin vacuus (“empty, vacant”) Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|vacuus||empty, vacant}} Latin vacuus (“empty, vacant”), {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₁weh₂-}} Head templates: {{en-adj}} vacuous (comparative more vacuous, superlative most vacuous)
  1. Empty; void; lacking meaningful content. Translations (lacking meaningful content): فَارِغ (fāriḡ) (Arabic), празен (prazen) [masculine] (Bulgarian), vacu (Catalan), nietszeggend (Dutch), merkityksetön (Finnish), ontto (Finnish), tyhjä (Finnish), niais (French), ცარიელი (carieli) (Georgian), უაზრო (uazro) (Georgian), უგუნური (ugunuri) (Georgian), leer (German), nichtssagend (German), üres (Hungarian), próżny (Polish), pusty (Polish), vazio (Portuguese), пусто́й (pustój) (Russian), пустопорожний (pustoporožnij) (Russian), бессмы́сленный (bessmýslennyj) (Russian), faoin (Scottish Gaelic), isprazan (Serbo-Croatian), vacuo (Spanish), huero (Spanish), tom (Swedish), andefattig (Swedish), gwag (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-vacuous-en-adj-txvnpox7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 93 7 Disambiguation of 'lacking meaningful content': 96 4
  2. Showing a lack of thought or intelligence; vacant. Translations (showing a lack of thought): безмислен (bezmislen) (Bulgarian), niais [masculine] (French), gedankenlos (German), bezmyślny (Polish), tępy (Polish), faoin (Scottish Gaelic), penwan (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-vacuous-en-adj-Xj4RLFY~ Disambiguation of 'showing a lack of thought': 8 92
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: vacuity [noun], vacuously [adverb], vacuousness [noun] Related terms: vacant, vacuous truth, vacuum, empty-headed

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