vacuously
adverb
vacuously is an adverb meaning “In a vacuous manner, lacking thought” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-C-U-O-U-S-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does vacuously mean?
adverb
- 1
In a vacuous manner, lacking thought.
- 2
Because of being a vacuous truth.
The statement is vacuously true because P is false and P implies Q.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vacuously
- more vacuously comparative
- most vacuously superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vacuously?
Vacuously appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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 vacuously come from?
From vacuous + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).