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Another word for hollow

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Adjective

  1. Curving inward

    See also:

    convex

  2. Lacking value, use, or substance

    See also:

    full

Noun

  1. A space in an otherwise solid mass

    See also:

    convex

  2. An area sunk below its surroundings

    See also:

    convex

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Another word for hollow

Modifier

  1. Empty

    See also:

    empty

  2. Concave

    See also:

    round

    bent

    Antonyms:

  3. Sounding as though from a cave

    See also:

    loud

    Antonyms:

  4. False

    See also:

    false

  5. *Hungry

    See also:

    vain

    hungry

Noun

  1. A cavity

    See also:

    hole

  2. *A valley

    See also:

    hole

    valley

Idioms:

    beat all hollow

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Sentence Examples

  • The blue-bird makes her nest in a hollow tree and her eggs are blue.

  • The skull looked up through hollow eyes, just as the flashlight died, plunging the pair into a blackened void of darkness.

  • The dirt hit his body with a hollow thud.

  • In this way two cavalry regiments galloped through the Semenovsk hollow and as soon as they reached the top of the incline turned round and galloped full speed back again.

  • So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep, Capacious bed of waters.

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