vacuously
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Because of being a vacuous truth.
Example Sentences
- "Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, "Oh God! Oh God!" […]"
- "He scowled vacuously, keeping at bay a horrible enlightenment on the mechanism of effort, which must drive into being a resistance equal to itself."
- "The statement is vacuously true because P is false and P implies Q."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more vacuously (comparative)
most vacuously (superlative)