🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

공허한

Native Script:한국어 한글

Pronunciation / Transliteration: gong-heo-han

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Exsufflicate/ɛkˈsʌflɪkeɪt/
adjectiveCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #99999 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그의 주장은 공허하고 실속이 없었다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Empty, unsubstantial, frivolous, or blown out like a bubble.

    "His arguments were deemed exsufflicate and lacking any solid foundation."
  2. 2

    Exaggerated or puffed up with vanity.

    "The critic dismissed the pretentious novel as an exsufflicate piece of nonsense."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin verb exsufflare (to blow upon, puff out, or reject by blowing), combining 'ex-' (out) and 'sufflare' (to blow). Famously used by Shakespeare in Othello, it historically evolved to mean empty, frivolous, or inflated as if blown into air.

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