vacant

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   without an occupant or incumbent

   The throne is never vacant.

2. 2
   adj

   void of thought or knowledge

   The students had a vacant stare.

3. 3
   adj

   Not occupied; empty.

   a vacant room

4. 4
   adj

   Not present; absent.

   And Pierre felt that never, never would he be able to embrace Isabel with the mere brotherly embrace; while the thought of any other caress, which took hold of any domesticness, was entirely vacant from his uncontaminated soul, for it had never consciously intruded there.

5. 5
   adj

   Blank.

   a vacant page

6. 6
   adj

   Showing no intelligence or interest.

   a vacant stare

Etymology

From Old French vacant, from Latin vacāns.