vacuitous adjective4 •Lacking substance; trivial; meaningless. •Deficient; lacking.The doing of an act which might not lawfully be done, is nugatory, ineffective and vacuitous. — 1972 •Empty.On the one hand there will be vacuitous chambers and on the other hand too much air. — 1907 •(no longer used) Lacking thought or intelligence. formsmore vacuitous · most vacuitous