vacuously adverb2 •In a vacuous manner, lacking thought.Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, "Oh God! Oh God!" […] — 1915 •Because of being a vacuous truth.The statement is vacuously true because P is false and P implies Q. formsmore vacuously · most vacuously