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词汇 vacuous
释义 vacuous
adjective
 formaluk /ˈvæk.ju.əs/ us /ˈvæk.ju.əs/
not expressing or showing intelligent thought or purpose: 空洞的;无知的
a vacuous remark/question/expression/smile空洞的评论/无知的问题/茫然的表情/傻笑
Synonyms
asinineformal
fatuousformal
inane
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Stupid and silly
absurd
absurdity
absurdly
adolescent
against your better judgmentidiom
dopey
dopily
dorky
dottiness
dotty
imprudently
in his/her/their wisdomidiom
in someone's infinite wisdomidiom
inadvisable
injudicious
subnormal
uncritical
uncritically
undiscriminating
unintelligent

Related words


vacuously
vacuousness

vacuous | American Dictionary


vacuous
adjective
us/ˈvæk·ju·əs/
not showing purpose, meaning, or intelligence; empty:
To seem real to your readers, your characters must not be vacuous, but complex human beings with ordinary difficulties and goals.

Examples of vacuous


vacuous
In this way, the central claim of their paper - "all mental representations are conscious" - ceases to be vacuous.
What still constitutes his identity is the irrepressible, vacuous verbalism.
This interpretation replaces a substantive but invalid principle with one that is correct but vacuous.
Clearly, if c < 0, the first condition is vacuous.
Most people, it seems, are content with music that is emotionally vacuous and intellectually undemanding.
The schema (r9) allows vacuous renumbering to be eliminated.
The operation will implicitly map arguments outside the defined argument domains to vacuous sorts (which we think of as undefined values).
According to them, this renders the pre- versus post-lexical distinction vacuous and justifies our abandoning the distinction, altogether.
And, in the hands of a housebuilder, they are at worst vacuous.
Mathematically rigorous modeling is generative and refreshing, but it is vacuous without terms representing plausible psychological content.
The distinction between domestic and foreign capital then becomes vacuous and the situation is identical to the one in the text.
The manager resource consumes a functional pronominal resource and in the meaning language side disposes of it via vacuous abstraction.
This appeal to psychology must, therefore, be considered vacuous.
This verifies (a) and (c) when d = 1; (b) is vacuous.
Because this claim entails a specific method of analyzing coercion claims, it is not vacuous.
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