Another word for empty
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Adjective
Containing nothing
- Containing no matter; empty.
- Not occupied; unfilled.
- Completely lacking; devoid:
- Lacking intelligence; stupid or empty-headed.
- Devoid of substance or meaning; vapid or inane:
- Devoid of expression; vacant:
- Containing nothing; empty:
- Not occupied or put to use:
- Without an incumbent or occupant; unfilled:
- Free from clouds, mist, or haze:
- Not obscured or darkened; bright:
- Easily seen through; transparent:
- Devoid of writing, images, or marks:
- Containing no information; unrecorded or erased:
- Having spaces for information to be provided; not completed or filled in:
- Lacking the usual or appropriate covering or clothing; naked:
- Exposed to view; undisguised:
- Lacking the usual furnishings, equipment, or decoration:
See also:Lacking value, use, or substance
- Not yielding the desired outcome; fruitless:
- Lacking substance or worth:
- Having or showing excessive pride in one's appearance or accomplishments; conceited.
- Containing nothing; empty:
- Not occupied or put to use:
- Without an incumbent or occupant; unfilled:
- Lazy; indolent.
- Of no use; pointless or superfluous:
- Ineffective; futile.
- Not employed or busy:
- Disinclined to work or be active; lazy:
- Not in use or operation:
- Having a cavity, gap, or space within:
- Deeply indented or concave; sunken:
- Without substance or character:
See also:Lacking intelligent thought or content
- Lacking intelligence; stupid or empty-headed.
- Devoid of substance or meaning; vapid or inane:
- Devoid of expression; vacant:
- Containing nothing; empty:
- Not occupied or put to use:
- Without an incumbent or occupant; unfilled:
- Lacking sense or substance:
- Lacking sense or discretion; scatterbrained.
- Devoid of writing, images, or marks:
- Containing no information; unrecorded or erased:
- Having spaces for information to be provided; not completed or filled in:
See also:Not having a desirable element
- Absent; lacking:
- Not measuring up to standards or expectations:
- Without; missing:
- Containing no matter; empty.
- Not occupied; unfilled.
- Completely lacking; devoid:
- Present participle of lack.
- Uncorrupted by evil, malice, or wrongdoing; sinless:
- Not guilty of a specific crime or offense; legally blameless:
- Within, allowed by, or sanctioned by the law; lawful.
- Completely lacking; destitute or empty:
- Lacking resources or the means of subsistence; completely impoverished.
- Utterly lacking; devoid:
- Not producing or incapable of producing offspring. Used of female animals.
- Not producing or incapable of producing offspring. Used of women.
- Not producing or incapable of producing fruit:
Idioms:See also:
Verb
To remove the contents of.
- Containing no matter; empty.
- Not occupied; unfilled.
- Completely lacking; devoid:
- To cease to occupy (a lodging or place); leave:
- To cease to hold (a job or position):
- To make void or annul (an erroneous lower court decision):
- To withdraw or depart from; vacate:
- To withdraw or send away (troops or inhabitants) from a threatened area:
- To relinquish military possession or occupation of (a town, for example).
- Free from clouds, mist, or haze:
- Not obscured or darkened; bright:
- Easily seen through; transparent:
See also:To pass or pour out
- A point or matter of discussion, debate, or dispute:
- A matter of public concern:
- A misgiving, objection, or complaint:
- To move or run smoothly with unbroken continuity, as in the manner characteristic of a fluid.
- To issue in a stream; pour forth:
- To circulate, as the blood in the body.
- To release, as from confinement, care, or duty:
- To let go; empty out:
- To pour forth; emit:
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Another word for empty
Modifier
Without content
- simple past tense and past participle of clean out
- Having had population removed, by evacuation.
- Containing a vacuum.
- simple past tense and past participle of evacuate
- simple past tense and past participle of eviscerate
- simple past tense and past participle of deflate
- Expressing, containing, or consisting of a negation, refusal, or denial:
- Indicating opposition or resistance:
- Unpleasant; disagreeable:
- Lacking resources or the means of subsistence; completely impoverished.
- Utterly lacking; devoid:
- Free from liquid or moisture:
- Having or characterized by little or no rain:
- Marked by the absence of natural or normal moisture:
- Devoid of inhabitants; deserted:
- Barren; lifeless:
- Feeling, showing, causing, or expressing sadness or loneliness.
- simple past tense and past participle of despoil
- Clearly distinguished or delineated:
- Bare, desolate, or unadorned:
- Severe or unmitigated; harsh or grim:
- A dry, often sandy region of little rainfall, extreme temperatures, and sparse vegetation.
- A region of permanent cold that is largely or entirely devoid of life.
- An apparently lifeless area of water.
- No longer occupied or used; abandoned:
- Uninhabited:
- Extremely tired; exhausted or worn out.
- Relating to or being uranium whose fissionable isotope uranium 235 has been mostly removed, consisting primarily of the remaining isotope uranium 238.
- Depleted; in a state of exhaustion.
- Simple past tense and past participle of exhaust.
- Deserted; forsaken.
- Exuberantly enthusiastic.
- Recklessly unrestrained.
- simple past tense and past participle of empty
- Not producing or incapable of producing offspring. Used of female animals.
- Not producing or incapable of producing offspring. Used of women.
- Not producing or incapable of producing fruit:
- Absent; lacking:
- Not measuring up to standards or expectations:
- Without; missing:
- Present participle of lack.
- Completely lacking; destitute or empty:
- simple past tense and past participle of vacate
- Receiving few or no travelers or visitors:
- Having no residents; not inhabited.
- Not being used:
- Not inhabited:
- Not busy, employed, or engaged; idle.
- Having no furniture, especially when available to be rented.
- Devoid of writing, images, or marks:
- Containing no information; unrecorded or erased:
- Having spaces for information to be provided; not completed or filled in:
- Free from clouds, mist, or haze:
- Not obscured or darkened; bright:
- Easily seen through; transparent:
- Lacking the usual or appropriate covering or clothing; naked:
- Exposed to view; undisguised:
- Lacking the usual furnishings, equipment, or decoration:
- Having a cavity, gap, or space within:
- Deeply indented or concave; sunken:
- Without substance or character:
- Lacking intelligence; stupid or empty-headed.
- Devoid of substance or meaning; vapid or inane:
- Devoid of expression; vacant:
- Containing no matter; empty.
- Not occupied; unfilled.
- Completely lacking; devoid:
- Containing nothing; empty:
- Not occupied or put to use:
- Without an incumbent or occupant; unfilled:
Without meaning or force
- Not sincere; not genuine:
- Habitually phony or dishonest:
- Having a cavity, gap, or space within:
- Deeply indented or concave; sunken:
- Without substance or character:
- Not yielding the desired outcome; fruitless:
- Lacking substance or worth:
- Having or showing excessive pride in one's appearance or accomplishments; conceited.
Without sense
- Having no meaning or significance.
- Producing no fruit:
- Not leading to success; unproductive:
- Not producing or incapable of producing offspring. Used of female animals.
- Not producing or incapable of producing offspring. Used of women.
- Not producing or incapable of producing fruit:
See also:
Verb
To become empty
- To break loose from confinement; get free:
- To issue from confinement or enclosure; leak or seep out:
- To avoid a serious or unwanted outcome:
- To cause or allow (a substance) to run or fall out of a container.
- To scatter (objects) from containment:
- To shed (blood).
- To permit the escape, entry, or passage of something through a breach or flaw:
- To escape or pass through a breach or flaw:
- To become publicly known through a breach of secrecy:
- To make extremely weary; wear out.
- To remove a resource from; deplete:
- To use up completely:
- To set free from confinement or bondage:
- To set free from physical restraint or binding; let go:
- To cause or allow to move away or spread from a source or place of confinement:
- To clear (a container or space, for example) of something unclean or unwanted:
- To remove or eliminate (unwanted physical matter):
- To rid (a person or thing) of something unwanted:
- Containing no matter; empty.
- Not occupied; unfilled.
- Completely lacking; devoid:
- To tend toward or approach an intersecting point:
- To come together from different directions; meet:
- To tend toward or achieve union or a common conclusion or result:
- The receding or outgoing tide, occurring between the time when the tide is highest and the time when the following tide is lowest.
- A period of decline or diminution:
- To fall back from the flood stage.
- To serve a drink into a cup or glass.
- To distribute or spread (something), as if it were a liquid.
- To leave a place quickly, and in large numbers.
- To go out of or away from:
- To go without taking or removing:
- To omit or exclude:
- To release, as from confinement, care, or duty:
- To let go; empty out:
- To pour forth; emit:
To cause to become empty
- To take in as food; eat or drink up.
- To expend; use up:
- To purchase (goods or services) for direct use or ownership.
- To take into the mouth and swallow (a liquid).
- To swallow the liquid contents of (a vessel):
- To take in or soak up; absorb:
- Free from clouds, mist, or haze:
- Not obscured or darkened; bright:
- Easily seen through; transparent:
- To bring up and expel from the throat or stomach; vomit.
- To discharge violently; spew.
- To surrender (stolen goods or money, for example) unwillingly.
- To cease to occupy (a lodging or place); leave:
- To cease to hold (a job or position):
- To make void or annul (an erroneous lower court decision):
- To force or drive out:
- To discharge from or as if from a receptacle:
- To deprive of membership or rights in an organization; force to leave:
- To throw out forcefully; expel:
- To compel to leave:
- To evict:
- To withdraw or depart from; vacate:
- To withdraw or send away (troops or inhabitants) from a threatened area:
- To relinquish military possession or occupation of (a town, for example).
- To free from or relieve of a burden or trouble:
- To remove the contents of (a suitcase, for example).
- To remove from a container, from packaging, or from packing.
- To remove a pack from (a pack animal).
- To remove the load or cargo from.
- To discharge (cargo or a load).
- To relieve of something burdensome or oppressive; unburden:
- To clean, especially to tidy by removing the contents.
- (idiomatic) To empty completely; to remove all money or possessions from.
- Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
- Release from imprisonment provided by the payment of such money.
- A person who provides this security.
- To have (a growth or covering) be disconnected or fall off by a natural process:
- To rid oneself of (something not wanted or needed):
- To take off (an article of clothing).
- To draw off (a liquid) by a gradual process:
- To cause liquid to go out from; empty:
- To draw off the surface water of:
- To release contained air or gas from.
- To collapse by releasing contained air or gas.
- To reduce or lessen the size or importance of:
- To make extremely weary; wear out.
- To remove a resource from; deplete:
- To use up completely:
- To consume or reduce to a very low amount; use up:
- To remove the contents or important elements of; empty out or exhaust:
- A means of evasion or avoidance.
- Containing no matter; empty.
- Not occupied; unfilled.
- Completely lacking; devoid:
- To strike gently with a light blow or blows:
- To give a light rap with:
- To produce with a succession of light blows:
- To pour off (wine, for example) without disturbing the sediment.
- To pour (a liquid) from one container into another.
- A long-handled spoon with a deep bowl for serving liquids.
- To lift out or serve with a long-handled spoon.
- To plunge briefly into a liquid, as in order to wet, coat, or saturate.
- To color or dye by immersing:
- To immerse (a sheep or other animal) in a disinfectant solution.
- To release or throw down in a large mass.
- To empty (material) out of a container or vehicle:
- To empty out (a container or vehicle), as by overturning or tilting.
- To serve a drink into a cup or glass.
- To distribute or spread (something), as if it were a liquid.
- To leave a place quickly, and in large numbers.
- To move from a place or position occupied:
- To transfer or convey from one place to another:
- To take off:
Synonym Study
- Vacuous , now rare in its physical sense, suggests the emptiness of a vacuum a vacuous expression on her face See also syn. study at vain.
- Void specifically stresses complete or vast emptiness void of judgment
- Vacant means lacking that which appropriately or customarily occupies or fills it a vacant apartment, position, etc.
- Empty means having nothing in it an empty box, street, stomach, etc.
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