vacantly
adverb
vacantly is an adverb meaning “In a vacant manner; inanely or foolishly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-C-A-N-T-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does vacantly mean?
adverb
- 1
In a vacant manner; inanely or foolishly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vacantly?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-vacantly.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of vacantly
- more vacantly comparative
- most vacantly superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vacantly?
Vacantly appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does vacantly come from?
From vacant + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).