vacuitous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Example Sentences
- "He took Miss Lynes to supper; he outshone himself in vacuitous small-talk during the whole time that the meal lasted ; he held undisputed possession of her during that hour especially dear to flirtation, between the time when supper ended and the departure of the guests."
- "From his excellency, the President of this great Republic, down to the President of the Rural Debating Society, a patient and long-suffering people has been pelted, so to speak, by them with this too often vacuitous literature for lo, these many years."
- "But the experience of the divine which is unrelated to the world, to fellow-men, is a vacuitous escape, a personal enjoyment whose intensity or depth can never excuse its privacy, its exclusiveness, its rock-bottom selfishness."
- "The doing of an act which might not lawfully be done, is nugatory, ineffective and vacuitous."
- "In addition, ectomorphic or very thin, nervous people may be constitutionally yin vacuitous from birth."
- "We hear the usual argument about lack of parliamentary time, so if there is no time for that, how can there be time for this second-rate Statement of vacuitous quality."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: vacuus
Usage
Inflected Forms
more vacuitous (comparative)
most vacuitous (superlative)