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adj
Empty; void; lacking meaningful content.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: empty, vacant, empty as a pauper's purse, empty as the tomb on Easter, clean, leer, toom, unfilled, vacuumlike, vacuous, void
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Showing a lack of thought or intelligence; vacant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: empty-headed, brainless, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blockheaded, Boeotian, boneheaded, boofheaded, braindead, bubbleheaded, buffle-headed, bullet-headed, cerebrally challenged, childish, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, crackbrained, cretinous, daft, dense, dented, dim-bulb, dim-headed, dim-witted, dim, doltish, dopey, dozy, drowsy, dull-headed, dull-minded, dull-witted, dull, dumber than a box of rocks, dumb, dunderheaded, fatheaded, feeble-minded, flea-brained, foolish, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, goofy, half-brained, half-witted, hammer-headed, idiotic, ignorant, imbecilic, inane, insipid, intellectually challenged, knuckleheaded, lamebrained, lowbrow, lumpish, lunkheaded, mentally challenged, mentally retarded, mindless, monosynaptic, moronic, muttonheaded, nitwitted, numbskulled, oafish, obtuse, peabrained, pratty, pudding-headed, puerile, purblind, quarter-witted, retarded, ridiculous, rockheaded, sharp as a bowling ball, sheep-headed, silly, simple, slow, slow on the uptake, slow-witted, smooth-brained, stolid, stupid, thick-skulled, thickheaded, thickwitted, thick, unapprehensive, unclever, uninformed, unintelligent, unsmart, vacant, vacuous, witless, wooden-headed, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, dumb as a bag of hammers, dumb as a box of rocks, dumb as a doorknob, dumb as an ox, dumb as a post, dumb as a sack of hammers, dumb as dirt, dumber than a rock, not the sharpest crayon in the box, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the shed, thick as a brick, thick as a plank, thick as champ, thick as mince, thick as two short planks, thick as a whale omelette, ass-brained, fuckwitted, shit-for-brains, thick as pig shit
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
void of expression
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: blank
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
devoid of matter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
devoid of significance or point
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: empty, hollow
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
devoid of intelligence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: asinine, fatuous, inane, mindless
Antonyms: none provided
History
Learned borrowing from Latin vacuus (“empty, vacant”) + -ous.
Across languages
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
