vacantly

1. 1.

   in a vacant manner

   “she was staring vacantly into the room”

Questions about vacantly

What does vacantly mean?

vacantly means "in a vacant manner".

How many syllables are in vacantly?

vacantly has 3 syllables and divides as va-cant-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is vacantly a common word?

vacantly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.