vacuous, adj. See - vacant (defs. 1, 4, 5).
vacuum, n. 1. emptiness, void, space devoid of air. 2. vacuum cleaner, sweeper, carpet sweeper, electric broom, Trademark. Hoover. -v. 3. sweep, clean, do the housecleaning; pick up, tidy up.
vagabond, adj. 1. nomadic, vagrant, Bohemian, gypsy; wandering, roaming, roving, rambling, straying, straggling; moving, ambulant, traveling, peregrinating, journeying; migrating, migrant, migratory, itinerant, peripatetic, drifting, floating, Sl. rolling; transient, transitory, temporary, fly-by-night.
2. unsettled, carefree, untied, uncommitted; loose, lax, wanton, dissolute, promiscuous; disreputable, worthless, shiftless, good-for-nothing. -n. 3. tramp, vagrant, Archaic, runagate, hobo, Chiefly U.S. Inf boomer, Australian, swagman, beachcomber, derelict, street Arab; Inf. bum, Sl. vag, Sl. bo, Sl. stiff, Sl. bindle stiff, Sl. canvas back; panhandler, Yiddish, schnorrer, down-and-outer; migrant worker, itinerant, Usu. Disparaging. Okie, drifter, Inf floater, transient, fly-by-night; wanderer, roamer, rover, rambler, strayer, straggler, gadabout; migrator, bird of passage, Sl. rolling stone; gypsy, nomad; outcast, pariah, castaway.
4. rogue, picaro, knave, scapegrace, wastrel, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing, good-for-naught; villain, miscreant, reprobate, incorrigible; rascal, rapscallion, scamp, devil, troublemaker; libertine, rake, wanton, debauchee.
vagary, n. caprice, notion, crank, impulse, extravagant idea, brain wave, brainstorm; whim, whimsy, fancy, humor, crotchet, Archaic, maggot; idiosyncrasy, idiocrasy, peculiarity, eccentricity, quirk, oddity; erraticism, turn, twist, fit.
vagrancy, n. nomadism, peripateticism, vagabondism, Bohemianism, hoboism; itinerancy, wandering, roaming, roving, rambling, wayfaring, drifting, gallivanting, gadding, Dial, traipsing, Australian, swag-ging, Sl. bumming.
vagrant, n. 1. tramp, vagabond, nomad, Archaic. runagate, hobo. See - vagabond (def. 3). -adj. 2. nomadic, vagabond, Bohemian, gypsy; wandering, roaming, roving. See - vagabond (defs. 1, 2).
vague, adj. 1. imprecise, inexact, undefinite, not explicit, not straightforward, unspecific, nonspecific; ambiguous, equivocal, dubious, questionable, Inf. neither fish nor fowl.
2. indistinct, indeterminate, undefined, ill-defined, undistinguishable; inaudible, muffled, low, mumbled, muttered, unintelligible; faint, dim, weak, feeble, imperceptible, faraway; pale, faded, undecipherable.
3. obscure, nebulous, unclear, Rare, imperspicuous; shadowy, hazy, fuzzy, foggy, blurry, blurred, bleary, out of focus, unfocused; cloudy, opaque, filmy, misty, obfuscated, veiled.
4. uncertain, indefinite, undetermined, unsettled, unfixed, up in the air, open, touch-and-go, borderline; unproven, undemonstrated, in question; speculative, conjectural, assumptive.
5. abstract, recondite, abstruse; enigmatic, enigmatical, puzzling, baffling, bewildering, confounding; mysterious, arcane, cryptic; paradoxical, unfathomable, impenetrable, incomprehensible, confused, doubtful, uncertain.