[每日] vacuous (a) 空洞的
Word of the Day (Monday January 26, 2009)
vacuous \VAK-yoo-uhs\, adjective:
Pronunciation: http://ppt.cc/MSd8
1. showing no intelligence or thought
2. having no meaning or direction; empty
The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another
inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous,
more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean,
vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it.
-- Don Frederick, LA Times
McCain's campaign has been mocking Obama on television and in
speeches for weeks, attacking him personally as a vacuous
celebrity.
-- Ben Smith, Denver Post, 2008-08-29
by 1561, from Latin vacuus "empty, void, free." Figurative sense
of "empty of ideas" is from 1848.
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