Another unbearably vacuous title!
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Vacuous
//ˈvækju.əs//
Synonyms for "vacuous" (271 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (55)
Strong matches (81)
Adjective(45 words)
Related words (135)
meaninglessmindlessminusmissingnaivenegativenescientnirvanicnonexistentnugaciousnugatorynullnull and voidobliviousotiosepassivepurposelessquietisticrattlebrainedrattleheaded
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rawrelaxedscatterbrainedshallowsillysimpleslenderslightstarkstrange tosuperficialtentativethoughtfreethoughtlesstranquiltriflingtritetrivialunacquaintedunacquainted withunapprizeduncomprehendingunconversantunenlightenedunexistingunfamiliarunideaedunilluminateduninformeduninitiatedunintellectualunintelligentunknowingunoccupiedunpostedunreasoningunrelievedunripeunsureunthinkingunversedvacantvacuityvaguevainvapidvoidwhitewindywith nothing insidewithout beingwithout content
Adjective(61 words)
meatheadedmentally challengedmentally retardedmindlessmonosynapticmoronicmuttonheadednittynitwittednot the sharpest crayon in the boxnot the sharpest knife in the drawernot the sharpest tool in the shednumbskulledoafishobtusepeabrainedprattypudding-headedpuerilepurblind
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quarter-wittedretardedrockheadedsharp as a bowling ballsheep-headedshit-for-brainssimpleslowslow on the uptakeslow-wittedsluggishsmooth-brainedstolidstupidthickthick as a brickthick as a plankthick as a whale omelettethick as champthick as mincethick as pig shitthick as two short planksthick-skulledthickheadedthickwittedtoomunapprehensiveuncleverunderbrainedunfilledunintelligentunsmartvacuumlikevaguevoidwitlesswooden-headedwoodenheadedwool-headedwoolly-headedwoolly-minded
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Synonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
6 entriesTranslations
33 translations across 17 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- فَارِغ adj (lacking meaningful content)
Bulgarian
2 entries- безмислен adj (showing a lack of thought)
- празен adj (lacking meaningful content)
Catalan
1 entries- vacu adj (lacking meaningful content)
Dutch
1 entries- nietszeggend adj (lacking meaningful content)
Finnish
3 entries- merkityksetön adj (lacking meaningful content)
- ontto adj (lacking meaningful content)
- tyhjä adj (lacking meaningful content)
French
2 entries- niais adj (lacking meaningful content)
- niais adj (showing a lack of thought)
Georgian
3 entries- უაზრო adj (lacking meaningful content)
- უგუნური adj (lacking meaningful content)
- ცარიელი adj (lacking meaningful content)
German
3 entries- gedankenlos adj (showing a lack of thought)
- leer adj (lacking meaningful content)
- nichtssagend adj (lacking meaningful content)
Hungarian
1 entries- üres adj (lacking meaningful content)
Polish
4 entries- bezmyślny adj (showing a lack of thought)
- próżny adj (lacking meaningful content)
- pusty adj (lacking meaningful content)
- tępy adj (showing a lack of thought)
Portuguese
1 entries- vazio adj (lacking meaningful content)
Russian
3 entries- бессмы́сленный adj (lacking meaningful content)
- пусто́й adj (lacking meaningful content)
- пустопорожний adj (lacking meaningful content)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- faoin adj (lacking meaningful content)
- faoin adj (showing a lack of thought)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- isprazan adj (lacking meaningful content)
Spanish
1 entries- vacuo adj (lacking meaningful content)
Swedish
2 entries- andefattig adj (lacking meaningful content)
- tom adj (lacking meaningful content)
Welsh
2 entries- gwag adj (lacking meaningful content)
- penwan adj (showing a lack of thought)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
I do not like his inflated poetry or his vacuous comments on literature.
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As a result of burnout, my submissions to the magazine became increasingly labored and vacuous.
Source: tatoeba (11059498)
Translators are the sworn enemies of jokes; the exigencies of their deplorable trade cause them to maul the poor little things about while they are putting them into new clothes, and the result is death, or at the least an appearance of vacuous senescence; but jokes are only the crystallization of humour; it exists also in less tangible forms, such as style and all that collection of effects vaguely lumped together and called "atmosphere."
Source: tatoeba (11663712)
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