Usually means: Lacking intelligence, substance, or meaning.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word vacuous:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. vacuous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. vacuous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vacuous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vacuous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vacuous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Vacuous, vacuous: Wordnik
  7. vacuous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. vacuous: Wiktionary
  9. vacuous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. vacuous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. vacuous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. vacuous: Dictionary.com
  13. vacuous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. vacuous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Vacuous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Vacuous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. vacuous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. vacuous: Rhymezone
  19. vacuous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. vacuous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. vacuous: Free Dictionary
  22. vacuous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. vacuous: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. vacuous: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vacuous: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vacuous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vacuous, vacuous: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vacuous: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Empty; void; lacking meaningful content.
adjective:  Showing a lack of thought or intelligence; vacant.

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