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void

void

5 4.9
Completely empty and not containing anything
  • adjective
  • /vɔɪd/
translation icon : vacío
  • The school library had no wireless access and was completely void of comfortable seating for leisure reading.

Here we go, let's look around this place void of humans.

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Examples

  • A world of entertainments, a world of fun, a world void of moral seriousness.

  • The Naderi Hotel, like the streets, was void of life and motion.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • We are a nation that is becoming void of culture.

  • Vast it was, but void of stars.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Here we go, let's look around this place void of humans.

  • Thus isolated, the woman becomes culturally void and as vulnerable to acculturation as a child may be.

    Academic text (2002)
  • As I remember, you hated it, felt empty and hollow ... worthless, void of meaning, purposeless-

  • No witty parables, no acronyms for an overarching belief; in fact, it's absolutely void of anything trendy or theoretical.

    Blog text (27)
  • The abandoned town was completely void of any signs of life.

  • After cleaning the shelf, it was left void and ready for new items.

Synonyms

empty
vsvoid
1.0

Not containing anything

is stronger meaning completely without anything inside
vacuous
vsvoid
1 7.9

Empty space with nothing inside

is the same but stresses total absence of substance
contentless
vsvoid
6.5

Having nothing inside, like an empty box

is broader meaning total absence rather than only missing objects

Antonyms

1.0

Containing as much as possible with no empty space

1.0

Full of something that takes up most of it

2.4

A seat or place that someone is using

Idioms

null and void
  • Formal
12 4.8

Not legally valid or binding

How Empty

void
5 4.9
empty
1.0
vacant
104 2.6
occupied
2.4
crowded
222 1.0

Surface Forms

void positive

Etymology

Void comes from the Latin vacare 'to be empty' and the idea passed through old French. So when something is described as 'void' it simply means completely empty, with nothing inside, like a vacant room.