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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin vacuus (“empty, vacant”) + -ous.
Pronunciation
Adjective
vacuous (comparative more vacuous, superlative most vacuous)
- Empty; void; lacking meaningful content.
- Showing a lack of thought or intelligence; vacant.
Derived terms
Translations
lacking meaningful content
- Arabic: فَارِغ (fāriḡ)
- Bulgarian: празен (bg) m (prazen)
- Catalan: vacu
- Dutch: nietszeggend (nl)
- Finnish: merkityksetön (fi), ontto (fi), tyhjä (fi)
- French: niais (fr)
- Georgian: ცარიელი (carieli), უაზრო (uazro), უგუნური (ugunuri)
- German: leer (de), nichtssagend (de)
- Hungarian: üres (hu)
- Polish: próżny (pl), pusty (pl)
- Portuguese: vazio (pt)
- Russian: пусто́й (ru) (pustój), пустопорожний (ru) (pustoporožnij), бессмы́сленный (ru) (bessmýslennyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: faoin
- Serbo-Croatian: isprazan (sh)
- Spanish: vacuo (es), huero (es)
- Swedish: tom (sv), andefattig (sv)
- Welsh: gwag (cy)
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showing a lack of thought
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