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Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere.
Boyd Holbrook

Meaning of "empty-headed" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EMPTY-HEADED

empty-headed play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EMPTY-HEADED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Empty-Headed is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES EMPTY-HEADED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of empty-headed in the English dictionary

The definition of empty-headed in the dictionary is lacking intelligence or sense; frivolous.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EMPTY-HEADED

empt
emptiable
emptied
emptier
empties
emptiest
emptily
emptiness
emptins
emption
emptional
empty
empty calories
empty cow
Empty Quarter
empty-handed
empty-nest syndrome
empty-nester
emptysis
empurple

WORDS THAT END LIKE EMPTY-HEADED

baldheaded
bareheaded
beaded
big-headed
boneheaded
breaded
clear-headed
cool-headed
hard-headed
headed
hot-headed
leaded
level-headed
light-headed
loaded
pig-headed
red-headed
towheaded
unleaded
white-headed
wrong-headed

Synonyms and antonyms of empty-headed in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «EMPTY-HEADED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «empty-headed» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of empty-headed

Translation of «empty-headed» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EMPTY-HEADED

Find out the translation of empty-headed to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of empty-headed from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «empty-headed» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

没有头脑
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cabeza hueca
570 millions of speakers

English

empty-headed
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मूर्ख
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خالي برئاسة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пустоголовая
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

de cabeça vazia
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Translator English - Bengali

নির্বোধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la tête vide
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Translator English - Malay

Berkepala kosong
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Translator English - German

hohlköpfigen
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Translator English - Japanese

空では頭
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Translator English - Korean

비어 향했다
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Kosong
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vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đầu rông
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

காலியாக தலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रिक्त डोक्यावर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Boş kafalı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

testa vuota
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Translator English - Polish

gapowaty
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Translator English - Ukrainian

пустоголова
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Translator English - Romanian

gol cu capul
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el

Translator English - Greek

κουφιοκέφαλος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

leë kop
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

empty- headed
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tom i hodet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of empty-headed

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EMPTY-HEADED»

The term «empty-headed» is regularly used and occupies the 98.724 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about empty-headed

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2 QUOTES WITH «EMPTY-HEADED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word empty-headed.
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Boyd Holbrook
Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere.
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Raquel Welch
I'd taken the bull by the horns by liberating myself and creating a career. It took guts - it was scary and chancy - but they discounted me as empty-headed: some little piece of fluff without any brain that happened to come along.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EMPTY-HEADED»

Discover the use of empty-headed in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to empty-headed and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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REFLECTIONS In January in Kay's House: social commentary ...
eh?- -as who in their right mind woul' open up such commentary for any Louise to all clamor bullshit against. (More lil' green grey eyed off, as herself empty headed sort house-wife on via the social definitions asked herself these s' few things, ...
kai stevenson
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Headhood, Elements, Specification and Contrastivity: ...
The retracted lax vowel [i] is thus empty-headed and it is this difference in the positioning of the element that corresponds to the phonetic contrast. Given these representational possibilities for velar plosives and the two vowels in question, we ...
Philip Carr, Jacques Durand, Colin J. Ewen, 2005
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The Handbook of Phonological Theory
6. Empty-Headed. Constituents. and. Lateral. Head-Dependent. Relations. Government phonology, as we have seen, allows the use of a constituent whose head position has no segmental content (so-called empty-headed constituents).
John A. Goldsmith, Jason Riggle, Alan C. L. Yu, 2011
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Discourse and Ideology in Medieval Japanese Buddhism
11. EMPTY-HANDED,. BUT. NOT. EMPTY-HEADED. Dogen's. kOan. strategies. Steven. Heine. According to a frequently cited passage in the Eihei KOroku, Dogen returned to Japan from his travels in China in fall 1227 “empty-handed” ( Jpn.
Richard K. Payne, Taigen Dan Leighton, 2006
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Phenomenological Approaches to Popular Culture
3 EMPTY-HEADED MUSINGS: THE HOLY FOOL IN ROBERT PIRSIG'S ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE Eddie Tafoya In a scene from the 1931 film Horsefeathers, a bum approaches Pinky the dogcatcher, played by  ...
Michael Thomas Carroll, Eddie Tafoya, 2000
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Empty-Handed But Not Empty-Headed: The PrisonProof Project
This book was written for the sole purpose of encouraging every institutionalized person to write their own work of literature for self-publication.
John Hunt, 2013
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Commentary on James (Commentary on the New Testament Book #16)
The second “someone” (James) continues addressing the first “someone” in 2:20 –24: “But do you want to know, O empty[-headed] human being, that faith apart from works is workless?21Wasn't Abraham our [fore]father justified by works when ...
Robert H. Gundry, 2011
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Moses: The Epic Story of His Rebellion in the Court of Egypt
You see, I remember names and you don't, because I am a priest of Amon and you are an empty-headed boy—as empty-headed as all boys. Now what frightened you, Prince of Egypt?” He stopped chuckling and looked keenly at Moses, ...
Howard Fast, 2011
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Living on the Edge: 28 Papers in Honour of Jonathan Kaye
In this article I argue for word-initial empty-headed syllables and present an example of the key role played by empty nodes in the understanding of another type of phonological event, namely the distribution of Italian l\V and /lo/. It is shown that ...
Stefan Ploch, 2003
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On the Basis of Morality
But that expression, dignity of man, once uttered by Kant, afterward became the shibboleth of all the perplexed and empty-headed moralists who concealed behind that imposing expression their lack of any real basis of morals, or, at any rate, ...
Arthur Schopenhauer, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EMPTY-HEADED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term empty-headed is used in the context of the following news items.
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Channing Tatum Slips Into His Sweaty Thong Once More, But the …
Three years after the first giddy, empty-headed but entertaining male stripper movie Magic Mike was deservedly dead and six feet under, along ... «New York Observer, Jul 15»
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Freedom of the press will always matter
... pick out the journalists; they're usually either the obnoxious ones butting into other people's lives, or the empty-headed ones spouting clichés ... «MyCentralJersey.com, Jul 15»
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Orpheus in the Underworld, Iford Arts, review: 'thoroughly jolly'
... pompous Jupiter (Ian Belsey) and ineffectual Orpheus (Tristan Stocks), Suzanne Shakespeare makes a deliciously empty-headed Eurydice ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Forget Fireworks: A Couch Potato's TV Lineup
Only the genial Willie Robertson (Phil's son and the real star of “Duck Dynasty”) turns up in this ridiculously empty-headed hunting show, along ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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An Erica Mena-Inspired List Of What NOT To Do After You Get …
I can't take these two attention seeking, deluded, empty-headed, two dollar trollops seriously. Lol. http://www.therealmacoya.com/ @ ... «Madame Noire, Jul 15»
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TMJ Calls For Truce In Feud With Nazri But Jokingly Dares The …
Earlier, Nazri had retorted to TMJ's empty-headed label that he could not be that stupid as he was appointed by three consecutive Prime ... «malaysiandigest.com, Jul 15»
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The time a DOA walked out of the hospital
The rot really set in with cell-phones: it became necessary to wander around babbling aimlessly to one's equally empty-headed friends. «Winnipeg Free Press, Jun 15»
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Penny Dreadful Season 2 Episode 9 Review: “And Hell Itself My …
... a wind of poetic monologues and seemingly empty-headed dramatics; whatever may have transpired in past episodes, “And Hell Itself” takes ... «TVOvermind, Jun 15»
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A Portrait of the "Bro" as a Young Man
In some ways, the 'bro' is not new. He's there, for example, in Philip Roth's "Goodbye Columbus" as Ron Patimkin, the big athletic empty-headed brother of ... «WNPR News, Jun 15»
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Book Review: Lyrical account of the BBC's achievements is tellingly …
He describes the kind of BBC factual programme produced today as “crappy ... exasperating ... empty-headed”. Attenborough famously ... «The National, Jun 15»

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