Dictionary

vacant en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /ˈveɪkənt/

Etymology

From Old French vacant, from Latin vacāns.

Meanings

1. Not occupied; empty.
   • Below and to rearward circles the Tweed, silver grey on a dark brown field. Beside its low banks no tourists linger, vacant hangs the quivering bridge; down the narrow lanes no carriages come pressing over a succession of waving hills[…] 1892, E.K. Pearce, “Tweed Side”, in The Gentleman's magazine, page 171:
   • a vacant consulate
   • a vacant room
2. (rare) Not present; absent.
   • And Pierre felt that never, never would he be able to embrace Isabel with the mere brotherly embrace; while the thought of any other caress, which took hold of any domesticness, was entirely vacant from his uncontaminated soul, for it had never consciously intruded there. 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
3. Blank.
   • a vacant page
4. Showing no intelligence or interest.
   • a vacant stare
   • Fortunately the Reagan administration proved you can have a vacant moron as President and nothing really that bad will happen because the government isn't actually run by one person...the Executive office isn't even really run by the President alone. 2002 November 22, Marc Collins, “Very OT-How Smart Are My Fellow Americans? :-)”, in rec.autos.simulators (Usenet):
   • a vacant look in her eyes

Forms

Deriveds

vacancy · semivacant · unvacant · vacantly(adverb) · vacant lot · nonvacant · situations vacant · vacantness

Relateds

vacuum · vacate · vacuous

Synonyms

unfilled · lifeless · inhabitantless · tenantless · disinhabited · vacuumlike · vacuous · uninhabited · peopleless · void · empty · uninhabited · available · toom · empty as the tomb on Easter · empty · unoccupied · free · leer · featureless · unoccupied · inhabited · unpeopled · vacant · desert · wasteful · untenanted · empty · solitary · beingless · unpopulated · vacuous · clean · vacant · empty as a pauper's purse · howling · deserted · unhabited · desolate

Translations (84)

ja 空の (not occupied) · ka თავცარიელი (showing no intelligence or interest) · kea inban (not occupied) · es vacante (not occupied) · ba мәғәнәһеҙ (showing no intelligence or interest) · sv uttryckslös (showing no intelligence or interest) · ru бессмы́сленный (showing no intelligence or interest) · ca vacant (not occupied) · sv frånvarande (showing no intelligence or interest) · ka უქმი (showing no intelligence or interest) · id lowong (not occupied) · ar خَالِيّ (not occupied) · ru вака́нтный (not occupied) · pt vago (not occupied) · ru отсу́тствующий (showing no intelligence or interest) · oc vacant (not occupied) · be вака́нтны (not occupied) · ba буш (not occupied) · scn ntontu (showing no intelligence or interest) · fr vide (not occupied) · da ledig (not occupied) · ko 비다 (not occupied) · sv innehållslös (showing no intelligence or interest) · la vacivus (not occupied) · ba буш (showing no intelligence or interest) · mi wātea (not occupied) · hi रिक्त (not occupied) · tr boşta (not occupied) · mi āputa (not occupied) · mi tahanga (not occupied) · scn vacanti (not occupied) · mk о́тсутен (showing no intelligence or interest) · ota خالی (not occupied) · mk пра́зен (showing no intelligence or interest) · cmn 空的 (not occupied) · ota بوش (not occupied) · ru свобо́дный (not occupied) · vi rỗng (not occupied) · nl leeg (not occupied) · nb ubesatt (not occupied) · ar فَارِغ (showing no intelligence or interest) · sv tom (showing no intelligence or interest) · is laus (not occupied) · ru неза́нятый (not occupied) · ru досу́жий (showing no intelligence or interest) · bg безучастен (showing no intelligence or interest) · ka დაუკავებელი (not occupied) · mi hāmama (not occupied) · ar خَاوِي (showing no intelligence or interest) · eo vaka (not occupied) · hu üres (not occupied) · ka თავისუფალი (not occupied) · bg незает (not occupied) · de nichtssagend (showing no intelligence or interest) · ckb چۆڵ (not occupied) · ca vacu (showing no intelligence or interest) · hy թափուր (not occupied) · de ausdruckslos (showing no intelligence or interest) · pl wolny (not occupied) · ru пусто́й (showing no intelligence or interest) · sv ledig (not occupied) · ru пра́здный (showing no intelligence or interest) · ka არარსებული (showing no intelligence or interest) · fr niais (showing no intelligence or interest) · mk пра́зен (not occupied) · de vakant (not occupied) · bg свобо́ден (not occupied) · fi vapaa (not occupied) · nl vacant (not occupied) · de leer (showing no intelligence or interest) · cs volný (not occupied) · vi trống (not occupied) · ro gol (not occupied) · enm ydel (not occupied) · ka ცარიელი (showing no intelligence or interest) · it vacante (not occupied) · mk бези́зразен (showing no intelligence or interest) · de frei (not occupied) · uk ві́льний (not occupied) · uk вака́нтний (not occupied) · mk сло́боден (not occupied) · jv lowong (not occupied) · be во́льны (not occupied) · mi pao (showing no intelligence or interest)