empty, vacant, blank, void, vacuous mean lacking contents which could or should be present. empty suggests a complete absence of contents.

These adjectives mean without contents that could or should be present. Empty is the broadest and can apply to what lacks contents (an empty box), occupants (an empty seat), or …

He says his life has been completely empty since his wife died. I felt empty, like a part of me had died.

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Definition of empty adjective in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Empty is the opposite of full and is used to describe anything that has a complete absence of contents. Sometimes, empty has slightly different specific meanings depending on context.

If you describe a person's life or a period of time as empty, you mean that nothing interesting or valuable happens in it. My life was very hectic but empty before I met him.

Some common synonyms of empty are blank, vacant, vacuous, and void. While all these words mean "lacking contents which could or should be present," empty suggests a complete …

See also: bare, blank, clean, drained, empty-handed, fullness, fulness, glassy, glazed, hungry, inexistent [rare], lifeless, looted, meaningless, nonexistent, nonmeaningful, pillaged, …

EMPTY definition: 1. If something is empty, it does not contain any things or people: 2. having no meaning or value…. Learn more.