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emptyadjective lacking contents that could or should be presentthe refrigerator is empty, so we'll have to eat out bare, blank, clean, devoid, stark, toom(chiefly Scottish), vacant, vacuous, void barren, hollowavailable, clear, free, openunfilled, unfurnishedunattended, uninhabited, unoccupiedabandoned, deserted, emptied, forsaken, vacateddepleted, drained, dry, exhausted full completerepletefurnished, provided, suppliedfilled, occupiedflush, overflowing, packed, teeming feeling a desire or need for foodas the long car trip wore on, we all started to feel a little empty famished, hungry, peckish(chiefly British), starved, starving rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfishmalnourished, underfed, undernourishedgluttonous, gormandizing, greedy, hoggish, insatiable, piggish, piggy full, sated, satiate, satiated, satisfied engorged, glutted, gorged, overfed, overfull, overstuffed, replete, stuffed, surfeited having no meaningspare me your empty apologies because if you were truly sorry, you'd change inane, meaningless, pointless, senseless frivolous, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, little, minor, negligible, slight, trifling, trivial, unimportantabsurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dotty, empty-headed, fatuous, foolish, half-witted, harebrained, insane, jerky, kooky(also kookie), loony(also looney), lunatic, mad, mindless, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, silly, simpleminded, stupid, tomfool, unintelligent, unwise, wacky(also whacky), weak-minded, witless, zanyirrational, unreasonableaimless, haphazard, purposeless meaningful, significant eloquent, expressive, pregnant, revealing, suggestive, tellinglogical, rational, reasonable, validconsequential, eventful, important, key, major, momentous, substantial, weighty having no usefulnessan empty task that was assigned just to keep us busy chaffy, junky, no-good, null, vain, valueless, worthless base, cheap, cheapjack, duff(British), inferior, lousy, low-grade, second-ratebad, defective, dud, flawed, imperfect, substandard, unsatisfactorydeficient, inadequate, insufficient, unacceptable useful, valuable, worthy invaluable, precious, pricelesscherished, esteemed, prized, treasuredchoice, exceptional, fancy, high-grade, special producing no resultsall of the leads in the missing-person case were turning up empty abortive, barren, bootless, fruitless, futile, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, otiose, profitless, unavailing, unproductive, unprofitable, unsuccessful, useless, vain hollow, idle, meaningless, pointless, valueless, worthlesshopeless, impossible, lost, no-win, unattainableinadequate, insufficient, lacking, wantingcounterproductive in vain, no dice, not worth the candle, of no avail deadly, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, fruitful, potent, productive, profitable, successful, virtuous meaningful, worthwhileadequate, sufficientapplicable, feasible, functional, practicable, practical, realizable, usable(also useable), workable not expressing any emotionthe speaker looked out at a crowd of empty faces blank, catatonic, deadpan, expressionless, impassive, inexpressive, numb, stolid, vacant dull, vacuous, vague, vapidenigmatic(also enigmatical), impenetrable, inscrutable, mysteriousmotionless, static, still, woodenreserved, restrained, reticent, taciturnaloof, apathetic, cold, cool, detached, indifferent, phlegmatic, unresponsive demonstrative, expressive engaged, interested, responsiveactive, alive, animated, bright, busy, dynamic, effervescent, energetic, expansive, exuberant, lively, vivaciouseloquent, revealing, revelatorygestic, gesticulant, gesticulative, gesticulatory, gesturalemotional, melodramatic, theatrical(also theatric), unreserved, unrestrained to remove the contents ofempty the room before starting to paint the ceiling clear, evacuate, vacate, void deplete, drain, eliminate, exhaust, wastebleed, draw (off)clean, flush, purge, scour, sweep fill, load adj.empty, vacant, blank, void, vacuous mean lacking contents which could or should be present.empty suggests a complete absence of contents.an empty bucket vacant suggests an absence of appropriate contents or occupants.a vacant apartment blank stresses the absence of any significant, relieving, or intelligible features on a surface.a blank wall void suggests absolute emptiness as far as the mind or senses can determine.a statement void of meaning vacuous suggests the emptiness of a vacuum and especially the lack of intelligence or significance.a vacuous facial expression Cf. vain. before the 12th century |