vacuously

1. 1.

   in a vacuous manner

Questions about vacuously

What does vacuously mean?

vacuously means "in a vacuous manner".

How many syllables are in vacuously?

vacuously has 4 syllables and divides as va-cu-ou-sly 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 vacuously a common word?

vacuously 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.