empty-headed

See also: emptyheaded

English

Alternative forms

• emptyheaded

Etymology

From empty +‎ headed; compare airheaded.

Adjective

empty-headed (comparative more empty-headed, superlative most empty-headed)

1. Silly and lacking sense or discretion; featherbrained or scatterbrained.

   Synonyms: absent-minded, peabrain

   • 1977 April 30, Steve Blevins, “A Sack-full of Films”, in Gay Community News, page 11:

     Never has a group of actors uttered as many mealy-mouthed platitudes as you'll find bouncing off the walls of this empty-headed film.

   • 2021 December 7, Jesse Hassenger, “Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence cope with disaster in the despairing satire Don’t Look Up”, in AV Club‎^[1]:

     Hill, though, captures the entitled, empty-headed viciousness of the wealthy elites the film tries to eviscerate.

2. Stupid.

   Synonyms: brainless, peabrain; see also Thesaurus:stupid

Derived terms

• empty-headedness

 

Translations

silly

• Esperanto: ventanima
• Greek: κουφιοκέφαλος (el) (koufiokéfalos)
• Hungarian: üresfejű (hu), széllelbélelt (hu)
• Maori: hore
• Portuguese: cabeça oca m
• Spanish: cabeza hueca
• Turkish: mankafa (tr), ahmak (tr), budala (tr)
• Welsh: penwag

See also

• vacuous