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vacuously

adv

Etymology

From vacuous + -ly.

  1. learned borrowing from vacuus — “empty, vacant”
  2. suffixed as vacuously — “vacuous + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a vacuous manner, lacking thought.

    • 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.

  2. Because of being a vacuous truth.

    • The statement is vacuously true because P is false and P implies Q.

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