Vacant

//ˈveɪkənt// adj

adj ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not occupied; empty.

    "a vacant room"

  2. 2
    Not present; absent. rare

    "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."

  3. 3
    Blank.

    "a vacant page"

  4. 4
    Showing no intelligence or interest.

    "a vacant stare"

Adjective
  1. 1
    without an occupant or incumbent wordnet
  2. 2
    devoid of intelligence or thought wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
availableemptyvacuousemptyharebrainedvacuous

Example

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"How about playing catch in the vacant lot near by?"

Etymology

From Old French vacant, from Latin vacāns.

Related phrases

situations vacantvacant lot

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