Vacant

/ˈveɪkənt/ · adjective

Meaning

Not occupied; empty..

Definitions by Sense

1. Not occupied; empty.
2. (rare) Not present; absent.
3. Blank.
4. Showing no intelligence or interest.

Example Sentences

a vacant room

a vacant consulate

Below and to rearward circles the Tweed, silver grey on a dark brown field. Beside its low banks no tourists linger, vacant hangs the quivering bridge; down the narrow lanes no carriages come pressing over a succession of waving hills[…]

And Pierre felt that never, never would he be able to embrace Isabel with the mere brotherly embrace; while the thought of any other caress, which took hold of any domesticness, was entirely vacant from his uncontaminated soul, for it had never consciously intruded there.

a vacant page

a vacant stare

a vacant look in her eyes

Fortunately the Reagan administration proved you can have a vacant moron as President and nothing really that bad will happen because the government isn't actually run by one person...the Executive office isn't even really run by the President alone.

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Word Forms

• more vacant
• most vacant

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