empty-headed

comparative more empty-headed · superlative most empty-headed · alternative emptyheaded

1. derogatoryfigurativelySilly and lacking sense or discretion; featherbrained or scatterbrained.

   Hill, though, captures the entitled, empty-headed viciousness of the wealthy elites the film tries to eviscerate.

   2021 December 7, Jesse Hassenger, “Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence cope with disaster in the despairing satire Don’t Look Up”, in AV Club

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   Never has a group of actors uttered as many mealy-mouthed platitudes as you'll find bouncing off the walls of this empty-headed film.

   1977 April 30, Steve Blevins, “A Sack-full of Films”, in Gay Community News, page 11

   Synonyms: absent-minded, bubbleheaded, peabrain

2. derogatoryfigurativelyUnintelligent.

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   “Doesn't matter. That man is not the leader.” “But he is the main guy on the show.” “He is an actor, Nandor. A simpleton who paints his face. He is an empty-headed puppet who thinks the world loves him, when in actual fact, he is nothing more than a lapdog begging for scraps.” [groans] “No, he is not the leader. That would be another devil who pulls the strings. The halfwit they call the director.”

   2024 November 25, Max Brockman, “P.I. Undercover: New York” (11:26 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 8, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry)

   Synonyms: brainless, peabrain, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, soft