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vacant

  • /ˈveɪkənt/

Where it comes from

From Old French vacant, from Latin vacāns.

adjective more vacant · most vacant

  1. Not occupied; empty. a vacant room

    Similar: available, empty, free, uninhabited, unoccupied, beingless, desert, deserted, howling, desolate, disinhabited, inhabitantless

  2. rare Not present; absent. And Pierre felt that never, never would he be able to embrace Isabel with the mere brotherly embrace; while the thought of any other caress, which took hold of any domesticness, was entirely vacant from his uncontaminated soul, for it had never consciously intruded there.
  3. Blank. a vacant page

    Similar: empty, featureless

  4. Showing no intelligence or interest. a vacant stare

    Similar: vacuous

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: empty, vacancy, vacuum, unemployed, devoid, unfilled, unoccupied, uninhabited, inane, unencumbered, free, disused, immovable, libre, vague, idle

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adj not occupied

Españolvacante
한국어비다 bida
日本語空の kara no
中文空的 kòng de
हिन्दीरिक्त rikt
Portuguêsvago
Françaisvide
Deutschfrei, vakant
Italianovacante
Românăgol
Русскийсвобо́дный svobódnyj, вака́нтный vakántnyj, неза́нятый nezánjatyj
Tiếng Việttrống, rỗng
العربيةخَالِيّ ḵāliyy

adj showing no intelligence or interest

Françaisniais
Deutschleer, nichtssagend, ausdruckslos
Русскийпусто́й pustój, отсу́тствующий otsútstvujuščij, бессмы́сленный bessmýslennyj, пра́здный prázdnyj, досу́жий dosúžij
العربيةخَاوِي ḵāwī, فَارِغ fāriḡ

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@misc{vacant_2026,
  title = {vacant},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/vacant},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}