Meaning and example
devoid of intelligence or thought
A vacuous mind
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.956 places vacuous in the uncommon range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 83.4% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
loquaciousUncommon
- Known by
- 83.5%
full of trivial conversation
jocularUncommon
- Known by
- 83.2%
characterized by jokes and good humor
hubrisUncommon
- Known by
- 83.1%
overbearing pride or presumption
despotUncommon
- Known by
- 83.1%
a cruel and oppressive dictator
egregiousUncommon
- Known by
- 83.8%
conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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