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Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
empty (adjective)1.
a) containing nothing - empty shelves
b) not occupied or inhabited - an empty building
c) - unfrequented
d) not pregnant - empty heifer
e) - null the empty set
2.
a) lacking reality, substance, meaning, or value - hollow an empty pleasure
b) destitute of effect or force - an empty threat
c) devoid of sense - foolish
3.
- hungry
4.
a) - idle empty hours
b) having no purpose or result - useless
5.
marked by the absence of human life, activity, or comfort - an empty silence
transitive verb
1.
a) to make empty remove the contents of - empty a purse
b) - deprive divest a phrase emptied of all meaning
c) to discharge (itself) of contents
d) to fire (a repeating firearm) until empty
2.
intransitive verb
to remove from what holds or encloses
1.
to become empty - the theater emptied quickly
2.
to discharge contents - the river empties into the ocean
something (as a bottle or can) that is empty
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
empty (adjective)1.
lacking contents that could or should be present
SYNONYMS:
bare, blank, clean, devoid, stark, toom, vacant, vacuous, voidRELATED WORDS:
barren, hollow; available, clear, free, open; unfilled, unfurnished; unattended, uninhabited, unoccupied; abandoned, deserted, emptied, forsaken, vacated; depleted, drained, dry, exhaustedNEAR ANTONYMS:
complete; replete; furnished, provided, supplied; filled, occupied; flush, overflowing, packed, teeming2.
feeling a desire or need for food
SYNONYMS:
empty, famished, peckish, starved, starvingRELATED WORDS:
rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish; malnourished, underfed, undernourished; gluttonous, gormandizing, greedy, hoggish, insatiable, piggish, piggyNEAR ANTONYMS:
engorged, glutted, gorged, overfed, overfull, overstuffed, replete, stuffed, surfeited3.
having no meaning
SYNONYMS:
empty, inane, pointless, senselessRELATED WORDS:
frivolous, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, little, minor, negligible, slight, trifling, trivial, unimportant; absurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dotty, empty-headed, fatuous, foolish, half-witted, harebrained, insane, jerky, kooky ( kookie), loony ( looney), lunatic, mad, mindless, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, silly, simpleminded, stupid, tomfool, unintelligent, unwise, wacky ( whacky), weak-minded, witless, zany; irrational, unreasonable; aimless, haphazard, purposelessNEAR ANTONYMS:
eloquent, expressive, pregnant, revealing, suggestive, telling; logical, rational, reasonable, valid; consequential, eventful, important, key, major, momentous, substantial, weighty4.
having no usefulness
SYNONYMS:
chaffy, empty, junky, no-good, null, vain, valuelessRELATED WORDS:
base, cheap, cheapjack, duff [], inferior, lousy, low-grade, second-rate; bad, defective, dud, flawed, imperfect, substandard, unsatisfactory; deficient, inadequate, insufficient, unacceptableNEAR ANTONYMS:
invaluable, precious, priceless; cherished, esteemed, prized, treasured; choice, exceptional, fancy, high-grade, special5.
producing no results
SYNONYMS:
abortive, barren, bootless, empty, fruitless, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, otiose, profitless, unavailing, unproductive, unprofitable, unsuccessful, useless, vainRELATED WORDS:
hollow, idle, meaningless, pointless, valueless, worthless; hopeless, impossible, lost, no-win, unattainable; inadequate, insufficient, lacking, wanting; counterproductiveNEAR ANTONYMS:
meaningful, worthwhile; adequate, sufficient; applicable, feasible, functional, practicable, practical, realizable, usable ( useable), workable6.
not expressing any emotion
SYNONYMS:
catatonic, deadpan, empty, expressionless, impassive, inexpressive, numb, stolid, vacantRELATED WORDS:
dull, vacuous, vague, vapid; enigmatic ( enigmatical), impenetrable, inscrutable, mysterious; motionless, static, still, wooden; reserved, restrained, reticent, taciturn; aloof, apathetic, cold, cool, detached, indifferent, phlegmatic, unresponsiveNEAR ANTONYMS:
engaged, interested, responsive; active, alive, animated, bright, busy, dynamic, effervescent, energetic, expansive, exuberant, lively, vivacious; eloquent, revealing, revelatory; gestic, gesticulant, gesticulative, gesticulatory, gestural; emotional, melodramatic, theatrical ( theatric), unreserved, unrestrainedto remove the contents of
SYNONYMS:
clear, evacuate, vacate, voidRELATED WORDS:
deplete, drain, eliminate, exhaust, waste; bleed, draw (off); clean, flush, purge, scour, sweep