The Only Use of
vacuous
in
The Great Gatsby
- people were doing "stunts" all over the garden, while happy, vacuous bursts of laughter rose toward the summer sky.
p. 46.9vacuous = lacking intelligent thought
Definitions:
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(1)
(vacuous) lacking intelligent thought
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In addition to usage such as "vacuous comments" that indicate a lack of intelligent thought; vacuous can also indicate a lack of attention as in "a vacuous stare", or an absence of meaning as in "a vacuous life".
More rarely, and especially in older usage, vacuous may refer to physical emptiness -- such as "a vacuous warehouse".