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hollowadjective curved inwardthere's a noticeably hollow spot in the mattress where he has been sleeping concave, dented, depressed, dished, indented, recessed, sunken alveolar, cavernous, crescentic, cuplike, cupped, cuppy, recurveddimpled, pockmarkedcompressed, condensed, contracted, diminished, reduced bulging, cambered, convex, protruding, protrusive, protuberant ballooning, bloated, blown up, bulbous, distended, enlarged, expanded, extended, inflated, jutting, projecting, puffed, puffy, risen, swollendomed, global, globular, round, rounded, spherical a sunken area forming a separate spacemade a little hollow in her mound of mashed potatoes and filled it with gravy cavity, concavity, dent, depression, dint, hole, indentation, indenture, pit, recess burrow, cave, cavern, ditch, excavation, furrow, groove, gutter, trench, troughbasin, bowl, valleyalcove, cleft, niche, nook, opening, socketalveolus, dimple, gouge, impression, imprint, notch, pocketborehole, chuckhole, crater, posthole, pothole, sinkhole, wallow, water hole, wellabyss, chasm, gulf, vacuity, vacuum, void bulge, camber, convexity, jut, projection, protrusion, protuberance hill, mound, risebump, bunch, hump, lump, pimple, swell, swelling, tumor an area of lowland between hills or mountainsa quaint village nestled in a hollow among green hills dale, dene(British), vale, valley canyon(also cañon), combe(also coombe or coomb, British), dell, depression, dingle, glen, gorge, gulch, gully(also gulley), kloof(South African), ravine, rift valleybasin, bowl alp, mount, mountain, peakheight, mountaintop, pinnacle, summitplateau, tableland adj.vain, nugatory, otiose, idle, empty, hollow mean being without worth or significance.vain implies either absolute or relative absence of value.vain promises nugatory suggests triviality or insignificance.a monarch with nugatory powers otiose suggests that something serves no purpose and is either an encumbrance or a superfluity.a film without a single otiose scene idle suggests being incapable of worthwhile use or effect.idle speculations empty and hollow suggest a deceiving lack of real substance or soundness or genuineness.an empty attempt at reconciliation a hollow victory before the 12th century |