Antonyms for vacant

Grammar : Adj

Spell : vey-kuh nt

Phonetic Transcription : ˈveɪ kənt

Definition of vacant

Origin : late 13c., from Old French vacant, from Latin vacantem (nominative vacans), present participle of vacare "to be empty" (see vain). Related: Vacantly.

adj empty; unoccupied
adj absent-minded; expressionless

Example sentences :

He turned and faced Percival, looking from him to his sandwich with vacant eyes.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

The feeling then was reciprocal, and he was proposed for the vacant seat.
Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook

Novels are taken up to amuse the vacant hour—in this consists their use.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various

Mr. Gladstone was invited to the vacant place, but declined.
Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook

A man cutting brush in a vacant lot leaned on his axe to look after us.
Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark

The place at his right had been vacant ever since they left Southampton.
Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various

Comrade Ossipon met the shock of this blasphemy by an awful, vacant stare.
Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad

The child's eyes, though soft, were so vacant in their gaze.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The post will not be vacant until the beginning of the year.
Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood

I have taken all the vacant apartments; and must carry this point also.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

Synonyms for vacant

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