different between vacant vs inane
vacant
English
Etymology
From Old French vacant, from Latin vacans.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ve?k?nt/
Adjective
vacant (comparative more vacant, superlative most vacant)
- Not occupied; empty.
- vacant lot
- Showing no intelligence or interest.
- a vacant stare
Synonyms
- (Not occupied): available, empty, free, uninhabited, unoccupied
- (Showing no intelligence or interest): vacuous, thousand mile stare
Derived terms
- vacancy noun
- vacantly adverb
Related terms
- unfilled
- vacate verb
Translations
Anagrams
- Van cat
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va.k??/
Adjective
vacant (feminine singular vacante, masculine plural vacants, feminine plural vacantes)
- vacant
Further reading
- “vacant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
vacant
- third-person plural present active indicative of vac?
Piedmontese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va?ka?t/
Adjective
vacant
- vacant
Romanian
Etymology
From French vacant, from Latin vacans.
Adjective
vacant m or n (feminine singular vacant?, masculine plural vacan?i, feminine and neuter plural vacante)
- unoccupied
Declension
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inane
English
Etymology
From Middle French inane, from Latin in?nis (“empty, vain, useless”) which is of unknown origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ne?n/
- Rhymes: -e?n
Adjective
inane (comparative inaner or more inane, superlative inanest or most inane)
- Lacking sense or meaning (often to the point of boredom or annoyance)
- (lacking sense): Synonyms: silly, fatuous, vapid
- Purposeless; pointless
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening
- Vague and inane instincts.
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
inane (plural inanes)
- That which is void or empty.
- The undistinguishable inane of infinite space.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
- [...] whom we watch as we watch the clouds careering in the windy, bottomless inane, or read about like characters in ancient and rather fabulous annals.
Anagrams
- -anine, Annie, nenia
Italian
Etymology
From Latin in?nis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i?na.ne/
- Hyphenation: i?nà?ne
Adjective
inane (plural inani) (literary)
- (rare) empty, void, hollow
- Synonyms: (literary) vacuo, vuoto
- Antonyms: colmo, pieno
- useless, vain, inane
- Synonyms: inconcludente, infruttuoso, inutile, (literary) irrito, vano
- Antonym: utile
Derived terms
- inanità
Anagrams
- nenia
References
- inane in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Adjective
in?ne
- nominative neuter singular of in?nis
- accusative neuter singular of in?nis
- vocative neuter singular of in?nis
References
- inane in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- inane in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin in?nis.
Adjective
inane m or f (plural inanes, comparable)
- inane (lacking sense or meaning)
- Synonyms: vão, vazio, fútil
Related terms
- inanição
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin in?nis.
Adjective
inane (plural inanes)
- inane; pointless
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