vacuously
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Englisch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]vacuously (comparative more vacuously, superlative most vacuously)
- In a vacuous manner, lacking thought.
- 1915, Jack London, The Little Lady of the Big House:
- Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, "Oh God! Oh God!" […]
- (logic) Because of being a vacuous truth.
- The statement is vacuously true because P is false and P implies Q.
Translations
[edit]lacking thought
because of being a vacuous truth
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