WordDisk
  • Reading
    • Shortcuts
      •   Home
      •   All Articles
      •   Read from Another Site
      Sources
      • Wikipedia
      • Simple Wikipedia
      • VOA Learning English
      • Futurity
      • The Conversation
      • MIT News
      • Harvard Gazette
      • Cambridge News
      • YDS/YÖKDİL Passages
      Topics
      • Technology
      • Engineering
      • Business
      • Economics
      • Human
      • Health
      • Energy
      • Biology
      • Nature
      • Space
  •  Log in
  •  Sign up
2.5
History
Add

vacuous adjective [ ˈvakjʊəs ]

• having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless.
• "a vacuous smile"
Similar: blank, vacant, expressionless, deadpan, inscrutable, inexpressive, poker-faced, emotionless, impassive, absent, absent-minded, uninterested, empty, glassy, stony, wooden, motionless, lifeless, inanimate, empty-headed, unintelligent, without thought, brainless, dense, dull-witted, thick, inane, stupid, brain-dead,
Opposite: expressive, meaningful, thinking, intelligent,
• empty.
Origin: mid 17th century (in the sense ‘empty of matter’): from Latin vacuus ‘empty’ + -ous.


2025 WordDisk