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vacant
Meaning: empty or unoccupied
vacant in a sentence
How vacant is used in real sentences:
The apartment next door has been vacant since the previous tenants moved out.
Walking past the old theater downtown, we noticed it had stood vacant for nearly a decade with boarded-up windows.
“After the last ant left a failed room, workers carried healthy fungus into the vacant chamber.”
— from the passage Gardens Beneath the Forest
Synonyms for vacant
Other words for vacant — empty, unoccupied and deserted — carry the same meaning.
- empty
- unoccupied
- deserted
Antonyms of vacant
Words that mean the opposite of vacant:
- occupied
- full
- inhabited
Where it comes from
From Latin vacare 'to be empty'
Word parts
- vac/van/void — empty
vacant: vac (empty) + -ant (being)
Memory hook
VACANT sounds like 'vacation' — the house is empty because everyone's away.