empty-headed

emp·ty-head·ed

(ĕmp′tē-hĕd′ĭd)

adj.

Lacking sense or discretion; scatterbrained.

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empty-headed

adj

lacking intelligence or sense; frivolous

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emp′ty-head′ed

adj.

foolish; brainless.

[1640–50]

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Adj.

empty-headed - lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles"

featherbrained, airheaded, dizzy, giddy, lightheaded, light-headed, silly

frivolous - not serious in content or attitude or behavior; "a frivolous novel"; "a frivolous remark"; "a frivolous young woman"

empty-headed

adjective scatterbrained, simple, stupid, silly, dizzy (informal), frivolous, giddy, goofy (informal), vacuous, inane, skittish, flighty, brainless, harebrained, featherbrained, ditzy or ditsy (slang) a pretty but empty-headed young woman

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empty-headed

adjective

1. Lacking intelligent thought or content:

blank, empty, inane, vacant, vacuous.

2. Given to lighthearted silliness:

featherbrained, flighty, frivolous, frothy, giddy, harebrained, lighthearted, scatterbrained, silly.

Informal: gaga.

Slang: birdbrained, dizzy.

Translations

empty-headed

[ˈemptɪˈhedɪd] ADJ → casquivano

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empty-headed

[ˌɛmptɪˈhɛdɪd] adj → sciocco/a

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empty

(ˈempti) adjective

1. having nothing inside. an empty box; an empty cup.

2. unoccupied. an empty house.

3. (with of) completely without. a street quite empty of people.

4. having no practical result; (likely to be) unfulfilled. empty threats.

verb

1. to make or become empty. He emptied the jug; The cinema emptied quickly at 10.30; He emptied out his pockets.

2. to tip, pour, or fall out of a container. She emptied the milk into a pan; The rubbish emptied on to the ground.

noun

an empty bottle etc. Take the empties back to the shop.

ˈemptiness noun

ˌempty-ˈhanded adjective

carrying nothing. I went to collect my wages but returned empty-handed.

ˌempty-ˈheaded adjective

brainless. an empty-headed young girl.

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And take all the other empty-headed lions with you-- and those stupid leopards and antelopes.

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Sir William Lucas, and his daughter Maria, a good-humoured girl, but as empty-headed as himself, had nothing to say that could be worth hearing, and were listened to with about as much delight as the rattle of the chaise.

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At first, indeed, she had seemed to take a pleasure in mortifying my vanity and crushing my presumption - relentlessly nipping off bud by bud as they ventured to appear; and then, I confess, I was deeply wounded, though, at the same time, stimulated to seek revenge; - but latterly finding, beyond a doubt, that I was not that empty-headed coxcomb she had first supposed me, she had repulsed my modest advances in quite a different spirit.

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She was a forward, good-natured, empty-headed woman, who persisted in talking, whether I listened or not, and who had a habit of perpetually addressing me as "Mrs.

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Lorry, you cannot control the mincing vanities and giddinesses of empty-headed girls; you must not expect to do it, or you will always be disappointed.

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I couldn't bear the idea of her being criticized by every empty-headed chatterer belonging to the Cause.

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he had known that all along, but had shut his eyes to it, stupid and empty-headed: that charm of his concealed an utter selfishness; he was willing to sacrifice anyone to his appetites.

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Good luck go with you for a--conceited, bragging, empty-headed, duck-legged idiot.'

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She was a poor, empty-headed, spiritless woman--what you call a born drudge--and I was now and then not averse to plaguing her by taking Anne away.

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It was simply impossible that Natalie's fancy could be really taken by such an empty-headed fool as that!

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No author can live by his work and be as empty-headed as an average successful painter.

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The majority of the guests--who were somewhat empty-headed, after all, in spite of their aristocratic bearing--never guessed, in their self-satisfied composure, that much of their superiority was mere veneer, which indeed they had adopted unconsciously and by inheritance.