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Synonyms for vacant
ˈveɪ kəntva·cant

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Wiktionary3.5 / 4 votes

  1. vacantadjective

    Synonyms:
    available, free, uninhabited, unoccupied, empty

  2. vacantadjective

    Not occupied; empty.

    vacant lot

    Synonyms:
    free, available, uninhabited, unoccupied, empty

  3. vacantadjective

    Showing no intelligence or interest.

    a vacant stare

    Synonyms:
    empty, free, uninhabited, available, unoccupied

English Synonyms and Antonyms3.7 / 3 votes

  1. vacant

    That is empty which contains nothing; that is vacant which is without that which has filled or might be expected to fill it; vacant has extensive reference to rights or possibilities of occupancy. A vacant room may not be empty, and an empty house may not be vacant. Vacant, as derived from the Latin, is applied to things of some dignity; empty, from the Saxon, is preferred in speaking of slight, common, or homely matters, tho it may be applied with special force to the highest; we speak of empty space, a vacant lot, an empty dish, an empty sleeve, a vacant mind, an empty heart, an empty boast, a vacant office, a vacant or leisure hour. Void and devoid are rarely used in the literal sense, but for the most part confined to abstract relations, devoid being followed by of, and having with that addition the effect of a prepositional phrase; as, the article is devoid of sense; the contract is void for want of consideration. Waste, in this connection, applies to that which is made so by devastation or ruin, or gives an impression of desolation, especially as combined with vastness, probably from association of the words waste and vast: waste is applied also to uncultivated or unproductive land, if of considerable extent; we speak of a waste track or region, but not of a waste city lot. Vacuous refers to the condition of being empty or vacant, regarded as continuous or characteristic.

    Synonyms:
    blank, empty, leisure, unemployed, unfilled, unoccupied, untenanted, vacuous, void, waste

    Antonyms:
    brimful, brimmed, brimming, busy, crammed, crowded, filled, full, gorged, inhabited, jammed, occupied, overflowing, packed, replete

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.7 / 3 votes

  1. vacant

    Synonyms:
    empty, leisure, unemployed, unencumbered, unoccupied, void, unfilled, mindless, exhausted

    Antonyms:
    full, replenished, business, employed, engaged, occupied, filled, thoughtful

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. vacantadjective

    void of thought or knowledge

    "a vacant mind"

    Antonyms:
    full

  2. vacantadjective

    without an occupant or incumbent

    "the throne is never vacant"

    Antonyms:
    full

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. abandoned, left

    vacant means empty

    the streets were vacant

    Submitted by anonymous on April 16, 2020  

Dictionary of English Synonymes1.0 / 1 vote

  1. vacantadjective

    Synonyms:
    empty, void, unfilled

  2. vacantadjective

    Synonyms:
    disengaged, not busied, unoccupied

  3. vacantadjective

    Synonyms:
    thoughtless, unthinking

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. vacantadjective

    Synonyms:
    empty, unfilled, void, uninhabited, untenanted, leisure, unemployed

    Antonyms:
    full, filled, occupied

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "vacant":

    vacancy, vacancies, unoccupied, unfilled, empty, open, free

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#42free
#146available
#283open
#1980waste
#2448void
#2964empty
#3291leisure
#3961blank
#8368vacancies
#10675vacant
#11307vacancy
#12212unemployed
#14778exhausted
#18688mindless
#43939unoccupied
#53923unfilled
#57833uninhabited
#60438unencumbered
#83005vacuous

How to use vacant in a sentence?

  1. Jason Oviatt:

    He was sort of vacant. He was very relaxed, he was very calm and sort of disconnected ... not displaying any outward emotion or any outward sign of real engagement in what's going on, he was very sweaty. He smelled bad.

  2. Barnegat Mayor Jon Novak:

    Arthur Buckel is going to be found. Arthur Buckel is going to be apprehended, my suggestion to you( Arthur Buckel) is to surrender to law enforcement immediately. Make it easy for everyone, including yourself. You are going to be apprehended either way. Surrender Arthur Buckel. NJ.com reported that authorities have chased down at least 50 dead ends in the search. Sgt. Jeffrey Ryan said in a press conference that officials are investigating every call from residents. Ryan said that Arthur Buckel could be holed up anywhere from a boat to a vacant home. Ryan said at a midnight press conference that there was a possibility that Arthur Buckel is.

  3. Gary Grasso:

    We’re more than happy for people to find freedom, it is hypocrisy by the mayor of Chicago to complain about the governor of Texas – I do agree with what he’s doing – the city of Chicago says it’s going to be a sanctuary city which I oppose – but there must be vacant hotel rooms in Chicago. This is hundreds of people in a city of millions. Why are they sending them out to the Republican suburbs? You have to wonder.

  4. Ellen Goodman:

    Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

  5. Atlanta Police Department:

    While fleeing, the Silverado drove into the front of a marked patrol vehicle and the passenger fired a handgun toward officers, the truck then fled down Cascade Avenue and struck an SUV before crashing into a vacant building at 804 Cascade Avenue.


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