vacant

Speech parts

1. vacant - Adjective

2. vacant - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Deprived of contents; not filled; empty; as, a vacant room.

Unengaged with business or care; unemployed; unoccupied; disengaged; free; as, vacant hours.

Not filled or occupied by an incumbent, possessor, or officer; as, a vacant throne; a vacant parish.

Empty of thought; thoughtless; not occupied with study or reflection; as, a vacant mind.

Abandoned; having no heir, possessor, claimant, or occupier; as, a vacant estate.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

free empty available idle devoid uninhabited unoccupied open clear spare blank void unemployed thoughtless lacking
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Antonyms

full book active solid apply engaged
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Related terms

vacuum vacate vacuous

Phrases with the word

make vacant vacant hour vacant time vacant lots window-vacant more vacant

Examples

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. William Cowper

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. Ayn Rand

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work. James Frey

There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night. John Ruskin

A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow mountain returns all sounds. Chinese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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