Vacuitous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Vacuitous is an adjective meaning Lacking substance; trivial; meaningless.
Meaning
Lacking substance; trivial; meaningless.
More Meanings
- Deficient; lacking.
- (obsolete) Lacking thought or intelligence; vacuous.
Example Sentences
The doing of an act which might not lawfully be done, is nugatory, ineffective and vacuitous.
In addition, ectomorphic or very thin, nervous people may be constitutionally yin vacuitous from birth.
Persons thus troubled are obliged at all times to keep their lips apart, or their mouth open, to enable them to breathe, and in time the features acquire a contracted and vacuitous expression, even in the most intelligent.
But the experience of the divine which is unrelated to the world, to fellow-men, is a vacuitous escape, a personal enjoyment whose intensity or depth can never excuse its privacy, its exclusiveness, its rock-bottom selfishness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include vacuous, vacual, vaporous, vague, empty, voyde.
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