Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Containing nothing; empty.
- adj. Without an incumbent or occupant; unfilled: a vacant position.
- adj. Not occupied or put to use: a vacant lot.
- adj. Law Not claimed by an heir: a vacant estate.
- adj. Lacking intelligence or knowledge: a vacant mind.
- adj. Lacking expression; blank: a vacant stare.
- adj. Not filled with any activity: vacant hours. See Synonyms at empty.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having no contents; empty; unfilled; void; devoid; destitute: as, a vacant space; a vacant room.
- Not occupied or filled with an incumbent or tenant; unoccupied.
- Not engaged or filled with business or care; unemployed; unoccupied; free; disengaged; idle: as, vacant hours.
- Characterized by or proceeding from idleness or absence of mental occupation.
- Free from thought; not given to thinking, study, reflection, or the like; thoughtless.
- Lacking, or appearing to lack, intelligence; stupid; inane.
- In law: Not filled; unoccupied: as, a vacant office
- Empty: as, a vacant house. In the law of fire-insurance a house may be unoccupied, and yet not be deemed vacant.
- Abandoned; having no heir: as, vacant effects or goods.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not occupied; empty.
- adj. Showing no intelligence or interest.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Deprived of contents; not filled; empty.
- adj. Unengaged with business or care; unemployed; unoccupied; disengaged; free.
- adj. Not filled or occupied by an incumbent, possessor, or officer; unoccupied.
- adj. Empty of thought; thoughtless; not occupied with study or reflection.
- adj. (Law) Abandoned; having no heir, possessor, claimant, or occupier.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. void of thought or knowledge
- adj. without an occupant or incumbent
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin vacāns, vacant-, present participle of vacāre, to be empty. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“With the title vacant, a good win puts me right in line for a shot at the belt," said De Laronde.”
“It is my decision that to be fair to the last two reigning champions of record, Hogan and Andre, and to furthermore be fair with the number-one contenders who would have faced either Andre or Hogan as champion, I now declare the title vacant.”
“Glancing up from my notes at the old man—his expression vacant, his head trembling slightly—it was impossible to imagine him involved in such an action.”
“Next to the savages, I had always lived in fear of being discovered in my retreat by the police, who would certainly think it strange to find a man and his mother living in a shed, without any practicable outside door, in what they called a vacant lot.”
“Marius Zaromskis to win vacant Strikeforce championship, TKO, first round”
“Our crezy economy: people get foreclosed and move into rental housing, and meanwhile they properties they vacate remain vacant and lead to neighborhood blight and depressed property values for their neighbors, who are therefore encouraged to default as well because they have negative equity.”
“We've also repeatedly demanded that banks adequately maintain vacant foreclosed homes and transfer them quickly and responsibly to new owners.”
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“There has been an increase in vacant homes, so choices are many," Zhan says, "especially for a first-time home buyer.”
“It traces the evolution of the game from pick-up soccer in vacant lots to the World Cup, and intersperses accounts of legendary goals with the effects of big money on styles of play.”
“Saplings and Oregon grape in vacant lots, grass in sidewalk cracks, if you leave for even a week you can come back to a jungle.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘vacant’.
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does what it says on the tin, and is severely needed.
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pleasing words I encounter whilst reading umberto eco's novel of the same name.
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State Spelling Bee 2011
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Ye Olde Shouting Match
From a list of insulting words that you might encounter in a Middle English shouting match.
The list was given to me by my English teacher.bawdy, bunch-backed, canker-blossom, brazen, clay-brained, clotpole, churlish, dog-hearted, crutch, distempered, empty-hearted, cutpurse and 78 more...
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If you read this in order from top to bottom, the word progression suggests the "lifespan" of a 300-year-old house in Pennsylvania.
national register..., volunteers, storage, visitors, library, curator, quarters, caretaker, hardware, beam, chamfered, joists and 42 more...
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mshund's Words
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