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[ emp-tee-hed-id ] / ˈɛmp tiˈhɛd ɪd / SEE SYNONYMS FOR empty-headed ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivelacking intelligence or knowledge; foolish; brainless. Origin of empty-headedFirst recorded in 1640–50 OTHER WORDS FROM empty-headedemp·ty-head·ed·ness, nounWords nearby empty-headedempty, empty calorie, empty calories, empty cow, empty-handed, empty-headed, empty morph, empty nest, empty nester, empty-nest syndrome, Empty Quarter Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for empty-headedNot even the most open-hearted (and empty-headed) idealist could look at these developments as a healthy sign for our society. Swelling Welfare Rolls Are a Sure Sign That Recovery Never Happened|Michael Medved|August 23, 2012|DAILY BEAST Apropos of this, Aristippus on one occasion rebuked an empty-headed parent neatly and wittily. Plutarch's Morals|Plutarch They talked without ceasing in an empty-headed stream of girlish chatter. When It Was Dark|Guy Thorne She watched him, not caring whether the empty-headed fools who sat all round saw her watching him or not. The Heart of a Woman|Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Why did they promote that empty-headed countryman of yours to a place for which he was quite unfit? Phineas Finn|Anthony Trollope Shallow, empty-headed creatures some of them might be, no doubt, but there were exceptions. A Man of Means|P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill
British Dictionary definitions for empty-headed
adjectivelacking intelligence or sense; frivolous Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to empty-headedbrainless, dizzy, featherbrained, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, ignorant, illiterate, inane, silly, skittish, stupid, uneducated, unschooled, untaught, vacant, vacuous, know-nothing |