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empty-headed

adj

Etymology

From empty + headed; compare airheaded.

  1. inherited from *káput✻ — “head”
  2. inherited from *haubudą✻ — “head”
  3. inherited from *haubud✻
  4. inherited from hēafod — “head; top; leader; origin”
  5. inherited from efd
  6. suffixed as headed — “head + ed”
  7. compounded as empty-headed — “empty + headed”

Definitions

  1. Silly and lacking sense or discretion

    Silly and lacking sense or discretion; featherbrained or scatterbrained.

    • Never has a group of actors uttered as many mealy-mouthed platitudes as you'll find bouncing off the walls of this empty-headed film.
    • Hill, though, captures the entitled, empty-headed viciousness of the wealthy elites the film tries to eviscerate.

  2. Unintelligent.

The neighborhood

Derived

empty-headedness

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for empty-headed. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA