Vacuous vs Meaningless - What's the difference?
vacuous | meaningless |
Lacking meaningful content.
Showing a lack of thought or intelligence; vacant
Lacking meaning.
Insignificant; not worthy of importance.
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As adjectives the difference between vacuous and meaningless
is that vacuous is lacking meaningful content while meaningless is lacking meaning.vacuous
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(en adjective)Derived terms
* vacuity (noun) * vacuously (adverb) * vacuousness (noun)meaningless
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(en adjective)Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless .}}