Vacuous
['vækjʊəs] or ['vækjuəs]
Definition
(a.) Empty; unfilled; void; vacant.
Checker: Wyatt
Definition
adj. empty void: without intelligence unexpressive.—v.t. Vac′uāte to make empty.—ns. Vacuā′tion; Vac′uist one who thinks there are empty spaces in nature; Vacū′ity emptiness: space unoccupied: idleness listlessness; Vac′uōle a very small cavity in the tissue of organisms; Vac′uousness; Vac′ūum vacant or empty space: a space empty or devoid of all matter:—pl. Vac′ūa; Vac′ūum-brake a brake working on the principle of keeping up a vacuum in a continuous pipe or pipes extending under the train and in brake-cylinders connected to them under each vehicle the air being sucked out by ejectors or pumps on the locomotive; Vac′ūum-gauge a gauge for indicating to what extent a vacuum is produced; Vac′ūum-pan a vessel for boiling saccharine juices in a partial vacuum in sugar-making; Vac′ūum-tube a sealed glass tube in which a vacuum has been made employed to examine the effects of a discharge of electricity through air or gas rarefied or exhausted.
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Examples
- Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss Mary Sutherland. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which compelled our respect. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Edison finally decided to apply a preliminary metallic coating of infinitesimal thinness, and accomplished this object by a remarkable process known as the vacuous deposit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The night seemed large and vacuous. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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