Etymology

vacuous

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Today it means: Empty; void; lacking meaningful content. Full definition →

Latin vacuus
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The story

  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromvacuus“empty, vacant”
  2. English todayvacuous

Learned borrowing from Latin vacuus (“empty, vacant”) + -ous.

Words from the same roots

Latinvacuus all →

avoidvoidvacuoleBodiovacuitous

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