Definition of: vacant

(vā′kənt) adjective
1. Containing or holding nothing; being without contents or occupants; especially, devoid of occupants; empty.
2. Occupied with nothing; unemployed; unencumbered; free.
3. Being or appearing without intelligence; inane.
4. Having no incumbent; unfilled: a vacant office.
5. Law Unoccupied or unused, as land; also, abandoned; having neither claimant nor heir, as an estate.
6. Free from cares.
7. Devoid of thought; unreflecting. [<F <L vacans, -antis, ppr. of vacare be empty]
—va′cant·ly adverb Synonyms: blank, empty, unemployed, unfilled, unoccupied, vacuous, void, waste. That is empty which contains nothing: that is vacant which is without that which has filled or might be expected to fill it; vacant has extensive reference to rights or possibilities of occupancy. A vacant room may not be empty, and an empty house may not be vacant. Void and devoid are rarely used in the literal sense, but are for the most part confined to abstract relations, devoid being followed by of, and having with that addition the effect of a prepositional phrase: The article is devoid of sense; The contract is void for want of consideration. Waste, in this connection, applies to that which is made so by devastation or ruin, or gives an impression of desolation, especially as combined with vastness, probably from association of the words waste and vast; waste is applied also to uncultivated or unproductive land, if of considerable extent; we speak of a waste tract or region. Vacuous refers to the condition of being empty or vacant, regarded as continuous or characteristic. See BLANK, IDLE. Antonyms: brimful, brimmed, brimming, busy, crammed, crowded, full, gorged, inhabited, jammed, occupied, overflowing, packed, replete.