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—empty-headedness, n./emp"tee hed"id/, adj.lacking intelligence or knowledge; foolish; brainless.[1640-50]
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empty-headed — adj. lacking seriousness; given to frivolity. Syn: airheaded, dizzy, featherbrained, giddy, lightheaded, light headed, silly. [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
empty-headed — index vacuous Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
empty-headed — adj informal silly and not intelligent … Dictionary of contemporary English
empty-headed — adjective not sensible or intelligent … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
empty-headed — [adj] flighty, scatterbrained brainless, dizzy, featherbrained, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, ignorant, illiterate, inane, know nothing, silly, skittish, stupid, uneducated, unschooled, untaught, vacant, vacuous; concept 402 Ant. cognizant,… … New thesaurus
empty-headed — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ unintelligent and foolish … English terms dictionary
empty-headed — [emp′tēhed΄id] adj. frivolous and stupid; silly and ignorant … English World dictionary
empty-headed — adjective lacking seriousness; given to frivolity a dizzy blonde light headed teenagers silly giggles • Syn: ↑airheaded, ↑dizzy, ↑featherbrained, ↑giddy, ↑ligh … Useful english dictionary
empty-headed — ADJ GRADED If you describe someone as empty headed, you mean that they are not very intelligent and often do silly things. ...a pretty, empty headed little thing, barely out of school … English dictionary
empty-headed — adjective informal silly, and unable to think or behave seriously: an empty headed blonde … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
empty-headed — adjective they treat her like some empty headed bimbo Syn: stupid, foolish, silly, unintelligent, idiotic, brainless, witless, vacuous, stunned, vapid, featherbrained, birdbrained, harebrained, scatterbrained, thoughtless, imbecilic; informal… … Thesaurus of popular words
