vacantly
With empty eyes
In a vacant manner—with an empty, unfocused expression suggesting the mind is elsewhere or not engaged at all.
Someone staring vacantly at a wall isn't really seeing it.
She gazed vacantly out the window, lost in thought.
The word can also describe speech delivered without apparent thought or feeling behind it.
Without any expression
- absentlyWithout attention present
- distractedlyIn an inattentive manner
- inattentivelyWithout mental focus
- dreamilyIn an abstracted manner
abstractedly · obliviously · vaguely · dazedly · distantly · bemusedly · spaced-out · lost
Without any expression
- impassivelyWithout visible reaction
- glassilyWith unseeing, fixed gaze
- dullyWithout liveliness or sharpness
- lifelesslyWithout signs of vitality
emptily · hollowly · deadpan · stonily · woodenly · flatly · poker-faced · glazed
In hollow manner
- desolatelyIn bleak isolation
- uninhabitedHaving no occupants
- barrenUnable to produce
- desertedLeft behind, uninhabited
forsaken · untenanted · unused · idle · available · unlet · unrented
blankly
Without any expression
- absentlyWithout attention present
- distractedlyIn an inattentive manner
- inattentivelyWithout mental focus
dreamily · abstractedly · obliviously · vaguely · dazedly · distantly · bemusedly · spaced-out · lost · daydreaming
blankly
Without any expression
- impassivelyWithout visible reaction
- glassilyWith unseeing, fixed gaze
- dullyWithout liveliness or sharpness
lifelessly · emptily · hollowly · deadpan · stonily · woodenly · flatly · poker-faced · glazed · unblinkingly
emptily
In hollow manner
- desolatelyIn bleak isolation
- uninhabitedHaving no occupants
- barrenUnable to produce
deserted · forsaken · untenanted · unused · idle · available · unlet · unrented
vacantlyalertly
With keen awareness
attentively · cognizantly · mindfully · consciously · watchfully
vacantlymeaningfully
With significance or intent
expressively · pointedly · significantly · knowingly · eloquently
- vacant lotUnoccupied land parcel
- vacant stareUnfocused, uncomprehending expression
- vacant lookExpressionless, unfocused gaze
- vacant landUnoccupied property without structures
- vacant propertyUnoccupied land or building