Definitions for vacant

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vacant va·cant

Spelling: [vey-kuh nt]

IPA: /ˈveɪ kənt/

Vacant is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in vacant (aacntv).

Definitions for vacant

adjective

1. having no contents; empty; void:
2. having no occupant; unoccupied:
3. not in use:
4. devoid of thought or reflection:
5. characterized by, showing, or proceeding from lack of thought or intelligence:
6. not occupied by an incumbent, official, or the like, as a benefice or office.
7. free from work, business, activity, etc.:
8. characterized by or proceeding from absence of occupation:
9. devoid or destitute (often followed by of):
10. Law. having no tenant and devoid of furniture, fixtures, etc. (distinguished from unoccupied): idle or unutilized; open to any claimant, as land. without an incumbent; having no heir or claimant; abandoned:

Origin of vacant

1250-1300; Middle English Latin vacant- (stem of vacāns, present participle of vacāre to be empty); see -ant

Examples for vacant

Mr. Gladstone was invited to the vacant place, but declined.

There he unlocked a door and pointed dramatically to a vacant bed, looking beautifully white, wide and deep.

This is a tremendous find, not just because he discovered all these first veterans of our first war in a vacant lot.

Set among the vacant houses of suburban New Mexico, the film offers a bleak perspective on the possibility of growth and renewal.

Novels are taken up to amuse the vacant hour—in this consists their use.

They are often set in quasi-rural areas, with vast parking lots and vacant land surrounding them.

The feeling then was reciprocal, and he was proposed for the vacant seat.

A man cutting brush in a vacant lot leaned on his axe to look after us.

He turned and faced Percival, looking from him to his sandwich with vacant eyes.

It takes a lot of hard work to appear that vacant, but Pedrad had been perfecting Kim since long before she landed on SNL.