empty-headed
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See also: emptyheaded
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From empty + headed; compare airheaded.
Adjective
[edit]empty-headed (comparative more empty-headed, superlative most empty-headed)
- Silly and lacking sense or discretion; featherbrained or scatterbrained.
- Synonyms: absent-minded, peabrain
- 1977 April 30, Steve Blevins, “A Sack-full of Films”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
- Never has a group of actors uttered as many mealy-mouthed platitudes as you'll find bouncing off the walls of this empty-headed film.
- 2021 December 7, Jesse Hassenger, “Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence cope with disaster in the despairing satire Don’t Look Up”, in AV Club[1]:
- Hill, though, captures the entitled, empty-headed viciousness of the wealthy elites the film tries to eviscerate.
- Stupid.
- Synonyms: brainless, peabrain; see also Thesaurus:stupid
Derived terms
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[edit]silly
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