vacuous

The word “vacuous” has 3 syllables: va-cu-ous

It's pronounced as /ˈvæk.ju.əs/


What is synonym and antonym for vacuous?

In the thesaurus, “vacuous” has 136 synonyms and 74 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for vacuous along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for vacuous

  • abandoned
  • absurd
  • airheaded
  • asinine
  • available
  • balmy
  • bare
  • barren
  • birdbrained
  • blank
  • bonehead
  • boneheaded
  • boobish
  • brain-dead
  • brainless
  • bubbleheaded
  • chuckleheaded
  • clean
  • clear
  • cockeyed
  • crackpot
  • crazy
  • cretinous
  • cuckoo
  • daffy
  • daft
  • dense
  • depleted
  • deserted
  • devoid
  • dim
  • dim-witted
  • dippy
  • doltish
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • dorky
  • dotty
  • drained
  • dry
  • dull
  • dumb
  • dunderheaded
  • emptied
  • empty
  • empty-headed
  • exhausted
  • fallacious
  • fatuous
  • featherheaded
  • feebleminded
  • fool
  • foolish
  • forsaken
  • free
  • gormless
  • half-baked
  • half-witted
  • harebrained
  • hollow
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ignorant
  • illiterate
  • illogical
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • inane
  • insane
  • invalid
  • irrational
  • knuckleheaded
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • lamebrain
  • lamebrained
  • looney
  • loony
  • lowbrow
  • lunatic
  • lunkheaded
  • mad
  • mindless
  • minus
  • moronic
  • nonsensical
  • nutty
  • oafish
  • obtuse
  • opaque
  • open
  • pinheaded
  • preposterous
  • sappy
  • screwball
  • senseless
  • shallow
  • silly
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • slow
  • slow-witted
  • soft
  • softheaded
  • stark
  • stupid
  • superficial
  • thick
  • thick-witted
  • thickheaded
  • tomfool
  • toom
  • unattended
  • uncomprehending
  • uneducated
  • unfilled
  • unfurnished
  • uninformed
  • uninhabited
  • unintellectual
  • unintelligent
  • unoccupied
  • unreasonable
  • unreasoning
  • unsmart
  • untaught
  • unthinking
  • unwise
  • vacant
  • vacated
  • void
  • wacky
  • weak-minded
  • whacky
  • witless
  • zany

Antonyms for vacuous

  • acute
  • apt
  • astute
  • aware
  • brainy
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • cerebral
  • clever
  • complete
  • crafty
  • cunning
  • discerning
  • educated
  • erudite
  • fast
  • filled
  • flush
  • foxy
  • full
  • furnished
  • highbrow
  • hyperintelligent
  • informed
  • ingenious
  • insightful
  • intellectual
  • intelligent
  • judicious
  • keen
  • knowing
  • knowledgeable
  • learned
  • literate
  • logical
  • nimble
  • occupied
  • overflowing
  • packed
  • perceptive
  • percipient
  • perspicacious
  • provided
  • prudent
  • quick
  • quick-witted
  • rational
  • reasonable
  • replete
  • resourceful
  • sagacious
  • sage
  • sane
  • sapient
  • savvy
  • scholarly
  • schooled
  • sensible
  • sharp
  • sharp-witted
  • shrewd
  • skilled
  • smart
  • sound
  • supersmart
  • supplied
  • teeming
  • thinking
  • trained
  • ultrasmart
  • valid
  • well-read
  • wily
  • wise

Meanings of vacuous

  • adjective
    1. Empty; void; lacking meaningful content.
    2. Showing a lack of thought or intelligence; vacant.

Example Sentences

  • The celebrity's vacuous interview left the audience unimpressed.
  • His jokes were met with a vacuous stare from the disinterested crowd.
  • The politician's promises seemed vacuous without concrete plans for implementation.
  • The social media post received criticism for its vacuous content.
  • The meeting ended with a vacuous exchange of pleasantries, lacking substantive discussion.

On this page you'll find 210 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to vacuous, such as: abandoned, absurd, acute, airheaded, apt, asinine, astute.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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daft

mad

  • aberrant
  • absurd
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  • affront
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  • aggravated
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  • airheaded
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  • birdbrained
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  • boiling
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  • boobish
  • brain-dead
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  • bristling
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  • bubbleheaded
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  • chafe
  • cheesed off
  • choler
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  • chowderheaded
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  • churlish
  • clownish
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  • cockeyed
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  • contentious
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  • contrariness
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  • cool
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  • dim
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  • dippy
  • disagreeable
  • disapproving
  • disordered
  • disputatious
  • disputatiousness
  • distant
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  • distraught
  • disturbed
  • doltish
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • dorky
  • dotty
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  • dull
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  • embitter
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  • empty-headed
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  • exasperation
  • excessive
  • exorbitant
  • extravagant
  • extreme
  • fallacious
  • fanatical
  • farcical
  • fatuous
  • featherheaded
  • feebleminded
  • ferocious
  • feverish
  • fey
  • fierce
  • fit to be tied
  • fixated
  • flare
  • flare-up
  • foaming
  • fond
  • fool
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • frantic
  • frenetic
  • frenzied
  • fretful
  • frigid
  • fruity
  • fuming
  • furious
  • furor
  • fury
  • fussy
  • gaga
  • get
  • going crook
  • gormless
  • grouchy
  • grudge
  • grumpy
  • half-baked
  • half-witted
  • harebrained
  • haywire
  • heat
  • high-pressured
  • hooked
  • hopping
  • hopping mad
  • horn-mad
  • hostility
  • hot
  • hot under the collar
  • hot-headedness
  • huff
  • huffy
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • icy
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ill-advised
  • ill-humored
  • ill-tempered
  • illogical
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • immoderate
  • impassioned
  • impractical
  • imprudent
  • in a fume
  • in a huff
  • in a pet
  • incense
  • incensed
  • indignant
  • indignation
  • inept
  • infatuated
  • inflame
  • inflamed
  • inflammable
  • infuriate
  • infuriated
  • inimical
  • inordinate
  • insane
  • intense
  • intensive
  • invalid
  • irascibility
  • irascible
  • irascibleness
  • irate
  • irateness
  • ire
  • ireful
  • irrational
  • irritability
  • irritable
  • irritate
  • irritated
  • irritation
  • jaundice
  • jealousy
  • jerky
  • keen
  • knuckleheaded
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • lamebrain
  • lamebrained
  • laughable
  • lavish
  • livid
  • lividity
  • lividness
  • loco
  • looney
  • looney tunes
  • loony
  • loony tunes
  • loopy
  • ludicrous
  • lunatic
  • lunkheaded
  • madden
  • madness
  • malevolence
  • malevolent
  • malice
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • mental
  • meshuga
  • meshugah
  • meshuggah
  • meshugge
  • miff
  • mindless
  • monomaniac
  • monomaniacal
  • mood
  • moonstruck
  • moronic
  • nettle
  • neurotic
  • non compos mentis
  • nonrational
  • nonsensical
  • notional
  • nuclear
  • nuts
  • nutty
  • oafish
  • obsessed
  • obsessive-compulsive
  • obtuse
  • odd
  • oddball
  • of unsound mind
  • off
  • offend
  • opaque
  • orneriness
  • ornery
  • out to lunch
  • outburst
  • outrage
  • outraged
  • overmuch
  • overweening
  • paranoiac
  • paranoic
  • paranoid
  • paranoidal
  • passion
  • passionate
  • peeve
  • peevish
  • perturbed
  • pet
  • petulant
  • pinheaded
  • pique
  • piqued
  • pixilated
  • pixillated
  • potty
  • preposterous
  • provoke
  • psycho
  • psychotic
  • pugnacious
  • pugnaciousness
  • pugnacity
  • put out
  • quarrelsome
  • quarrelsomeness
  • queer
  • querulous
  • querulousness
  • quick-tempered
  • rabid
  • rage
  • raging
  • rancor
  • rancorous
  • rankle
  • rankled
  • ranting
  • raving
  • reckless
  • resentful
  • resentment
  • ridiculous
  • rile
  • riled
  • riley
  • rise
  • risky
  • road rage
  • roil
  • roiled
  • rub the wrong way
  • ruffle
  • sappy
  • scatty
  • schizoid
  • schizophrenic
  • screwball
  • screwy
  • seeing red
  • seething
  • senseless
  • shirty
  • silly
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • sizzling
  • slow
  • slow burn
  • slow-witted
  • smoldering
  • smouldering
  • snappish
  • sociopathic
  • soft
  • softheaded
  • sore
  • sorehead
  • soreheaded
  • spite
  • spiteful
  • spleen
  • steam up
  • steamed up
  • steaming
  • stormy
  • strange
  • stupid
  • sulky
  • surd
  • teched
  • teed off
  • temper
  • testy
  • tetched
  • thick
  • thickheaded
  • thoughtless
  • tick off
  • ticked
  • tomfool
  • touched
  • touchy
  • unbalanced
  • unconscionable
  • unconsidered
  • undue
  • unfriendly
  • unhinged
  • unintelligent
  • unpleasant
  • unreasonable
  • unreasoned
  • unreasoning
  • unsafe
  • unsound
  • unstable
  • unwise
  • vacuous
  • vehement
  • vengeful
  • vengefulness
  • venom
  • very upset
  • vex
  • vexation
  • vindictive
  • vindictiveness
  • violent
  • virulence
  • virulent
  • vitriol
  • vitriolic
  • wacko
  • wacky
  • warmth
  • weak
  • weak-minded
  • whacko
  • whacky
  • wigged-out
  • wild
  • witless
  • worked up
  • wrath
  • wrathful
  • wrathfulness
  • wroth
  • wud
  • zany
  • zealous

oafish

  • absurd
  • airheaded
  • all thumbs
  • asinine
  • balmy
  • birdbrained
  • blundering
  • blunderous
  • bonehead
  • boneheaded
  • boobish
  • brain-dead
  • brainless
  • bubbleheaded
  • bumbling
  • bungling
  • butterfingered
  • chuckleheaded
  • cockeyed
  • crackpot
  • crazy
  • cretinous
  • cuckoo
  • daffy
  • daft
  • dense
  • dim
  • dim-witted
  • dippy
  • doltish
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • dorky
  • dotty
  • dull
  • dumb
  • dunderheaded
  • empty-headed
  • fallacious
  • fatuous
  • featherheaded
  • feebleminded
  • fool
  • foolish
  • gawkish
  • gawky
  • gormless
  • graceless
  • half-baked
  • half-witted
  • harebrained
  • heavy-handed
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ignorant
  • illiterate
  • illogical
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • inelegant
  • inept
  • insane
  • invalid
  • irrational
  • klutzy
  • knuckleheaded
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • lamebrain
  • lamebrained
  • looney
  • loony
  • lowbrow
  • lubberly
  • lumbering
  • lumpish
  • lunatic
  • lunkheaded
  • mad
  • mindless
  • moronic
  • nonsensical
  • nutty
  • obtuse
  • opaque
  • pinheaded
  • preposterous
  • sappy
  • screwball
  • senseless
  • silly
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • slow
  • slow-witted
  • soft
  • softheaded
  • stumbling
  • stupid
  • thick
  • thick-witted
  • thickheaded
  • tomfool
  • uncoordinated
  • undexterous
  • uneducated
  • ungainly
  • uninformed
  • unintellectual
  • unintelligent
  • unreasonable
  • unsmart
  • untaught
  • unthinking
  • unwise
  • vacuous
  • wacky
  • weak-minded
  • whacky
  • witless
  • zany

vacancy

  • abstraction
  • air
  • availability
  • bareness
  • barrenness
  • black hole
  • blank
  • blankness
  • bleakness
  • cavity
  • clearness
  • depletion
  • desertedness
  • desolateness
  • dryness
  • emptiness
  • exhaustion
  • gap
  • hole
  • hollow
  • hollowness
  • inane
  • job
  • lack
  • nothingness
  • open
  • openness
  • opportunity
  • position
  • post
  • room
  • situation
  • space
  • vacantness
  • vacuity
  • vacuousness
  • vacuum
  • void
  • voidness
  • waste

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