empty-headed

See also: emptyheaded

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Etymology

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

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