VACUOUS


Meaning of VACUOUS in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

vacuous cocktail-party conversation

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Far from being vacuous storytelling, myth in its true sense is a communion with the deepest truths of existence.

In a more reflective mood, the Marxist explanation turned out to be almost vacuous , in detail.

Some kind of comparison outside the text or corpus is necessary, otherwise statements of frequency are vacuous .

Sure, he delivered a vacuous inaugural speech.

Unfortunately, while superficially attractive, those context-independent truth criteria which have been suggested turn out to be vacuous or tautological.

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