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vacuous

/vak-yoo-uhs/US // ˈvæk yu əs //UK // (ˈvækjʊəs) //

空洞的,空空如也,空洞,空虚的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : without contents; empty: the vacuous air.
    • : lacking in ideas or intelligence: a vacuous mind.
    • : expressing or characterized by a lack of ideas or intelligence; inane; stupid: a vacuous book.
    • : purposeless; idle: a vacuous way of life.

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Examples

  • Instead, the film includes a lineup of Kipchoge admirers describing his greatness in the same lofty, but ultimately vacuous terms that we’ve heard a thousand times before.

  • The Daily Telegraph's Lisa Armstrong called the show a "stupendously vacuous enterprise."

  • In the tape, the bull looks bored, wearing that peculiarly vacuous expression that only cows and bulls can know.

  • Smith speaks with perfect articulation and a vacuous undertone laces her words.

  • The assumption that feminism comes in a neat, Xeroxable package is gravely outmoded and vacuous.

  • Speaking of Daisy, Mulligan does as elegant a job as possible portraying such a vacuous character.

  • "It comes to this," drawled Average Jones intently, looking the employee between his vacuous eyes.

  • Gossip must often have been likened to the winged insect bearing pollen to the flowers; it fertilizes many a vacuous reverie.

  • Lady Mary smiled at this vacuous repetition, but her mother went into a great rage, opening her old jaws like a maddened horse.

  • She submitted to the other's will like a tired child, dropping into a chair and eyeing him with a vacuous expression.

  • She knew neither of them, and they were immature boys, with the empty and vacuous faces of almost degenerate illiteracy.