Definition of Vacant

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Vacant

Deprived of contents; not filled; empty; as, a vacant room.

Unengaged with business or care; unemployed; unoccupied; disengaged; free; as, vacant hours.

Not filled or occupied by an incumbent, possessor, or officer; as, a vacant throne; a vacant parish.

Empty of thought; thoughtless; not occupied with study or reflection; as, a vacant mind.

Abandoned; having no heir, possessor, claimant, or occupier; as, a vacant estate.

Related Definitions:

Abandoned, An, As, Business, By, Care, Claimant, Contents, Deprived, Disengaged, Empty, Estate, Filled, Free, Having, Heir, Hours, Incumbent, Mind, No, Not, Occupied, Occupier, Of, Officer, Or, Parish, Possessor, Reflection, Room, Study, Thought, Thoughtless, Throne, Unemployed, Vacant, With

Vacant Quotations

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
George Bernard Shaw

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.
Thomas Carlyle

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes.
Julian Clary

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.
Jimmy Breslin

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.
Helen Rowland

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
Louis XIV

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.
Louis XIV

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.
Constance Baker Motley

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.
Robert Smithson

Vacant Translations

vacant in Afrikaans is vakant
vacant in Dutch is leeg, vrij, open, onbezet
vacant in French is vacant
vacant in German is leerstehend, unbesetzt, leerstehende, leer
vacant in Italian is vacante
vacant in Norwegian is vakant, ledig
vacant in Portuguese is vago
vacant in Swedish is obesatt, ledig, tom

Quotes