Dictionary

vacuous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈvækju.əs/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vacuus (“empty, vacant”) + -ous.

Meanings

1. Empty; void; lacking meaningful content.
   • vacuous remark
   • She gave him a vacuous smile.
   • vacuous expression
   • The movie was criticized for its vacuous dialogue.
2. Showing a lack of thought or intelligence; vacant.
   • Near-synonym: fatuous

Forms

Deriveds

vacuousness · vacuity · vacuously · supervacuous · nonvacuous

Relateds

vacuum · vacant · empty-headed · vacuous truth

Synonyms

woolly-minded · dumb as an ox · toom · bubbleheaded · vacuumlike · dim · beetle-headed · slow on the uptake · drowsy · vacant · empty-headed · silly · brainless · not the sharpest tool in the shed · thick-skulled · flea-brained · doltish · dim-headed · pudding-headed · slow-witted · intellectually challenged · unclever · dull · boofheaded · idiotic · addlebrained · dozy · dim-witted · addlepated · obtuse · dumb · not the sharpest knife in the drawer · chuckleheaded · thickwitted · goofy · blockheaded · ridiculous · unsmart · uninformed · dumb as a sack of hammers · rockheaded · dumb as dirt · stolid · fuckwitted · shit-for-brains · thick · half-witted · fatheaded · vacant · feeble-minded · crackbrained · thick as a whale omelette · ignorant · dim-bulb · mentally retarded · birdbrained · vacuous · soft · knuckleheaded · thick as mince · smooth-brained · lumpish · childish · cretinous · thickheaded · sharp as a bowling ball · braindead · thick as pig shit · empty · thick as champ · thick as a plank · puerile · beef-witted · chowderheaded · dunderheaded · dopey · void · numbskulled · moronic · vacuitous · dumb as a post · cerebrally challenged · thick as two short planks · quarter-witted · boneheaded · clean · stupid · unapprehensive · woolly-headed · foolish · wool-headed · empty · witless · purblind · beefheaded · imbecilic · dumb as a bag of hammers · simple · mindless · bullet-headed · hammer-headed · Boeotian · fatuous · fuzzy-minded · ass-brained · bee-brained · inane · fuzzy-headed · lamebrained · nitwitted · mentally challenged · dull-headed · dense · half-brained · daft · dumber than a rock · leer · sheep-headed · vacuous · wooden-headed · lowbrow · brainless · buffle-headed · oafish · retarded · unfilled · empty as a pauper's purse · dumber than a box of rocks · thick as a brick · dumb as a box of rocks · lunkheaded · slow · unintelligent · peabrained · not the sharpest crayon in the box · empty-headed · insipid · dented · empty as the tomb on Easter · vacant · airheaded · dull-witted · monosynaptic · muttonheaded · dull-minded · pratty · dumb as a doorknob

Translations (33)

bg безмислен (showing a lack of thought) · gd faoin (lacking meaningful content) · de nichtssagend (lacking meaningful content) · fr niais (lacking meaningful content) · bg празен (lacking meaningful content) · fi tyhjä (lacking meaningful content) · sv andefattig (lacking meaningful content) · de leer (lacking meaningful content) · cy penwan (showing a lack of thought) · fi merkityksetön (lacking meaningful content) · ru пусто́й (lacking meaningful content) · pl próżny (lacking meaningful content) · ru пустопорожний (lacking meaningful content) · pl pusty (lacking meaningful content) · ka უგუნური (lacking meaningful content) · fr niais (showing a lack of thought) · ka უაზრო (lacking meaningful content) · pt vazio (lacking meaningful content) · es vacuo (lacking meaningful content) · sh isprazan (lacking meaningful content) · ka ცარიელი (lacking meaningful content) · ca vacu (lacking meaningful content) · cy gwag (lacking meaningful content) · fi ontto (lacking meaningful content) · nl nietszeggend (lacking meaningful content) · ru бессмы́сленный (lacking meaningful content) · de gedankenlos (showing a lack of thought) · ar فَارِغ (lacking meaningful content) · hu üres (lacking meaningful content) · pl tępy (showing a lack of thought) · sv tom (lacking meaningful content) · pl bezmyślny (showing a lack of thought) · gd faoin (showing a lack of thought)