empty
adjective
1. holding or containing nothing
- an empty glass
- an empty room
- full of empty seats
Similar word(s): bare, stripped, blank, clean, white, glassy, glazed, lifeless, looted, pillaged, plundered, ransacked, vacant, vacuous, void
2. devoid of significance or force
- empty promises
Similar word(s): meaningless, nonmeaningful, hollow, vacuous
3. needing nourishment
- after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime
- empty-bellied children
Similar word(s): hungry
4. emptied of emotion
- after the violent argument he felt empty
Similar word(s): drained
Sentences with empty as an adjective:
- an empty purse; an empty jug; an empty stomach
- empty words, or threats
- empty pleasures
- empty dreams
- an empty vine
- empty brains; an empty coxcomb
verb
1. make void or empty of contents
- Empty the box
Definition categories: change, alter, modify
2. become empty or void of its content
Similar word(s): discharge
Definition categories: change, turn
3. leave behind empty; move out of
Similar word(s): abandon, vacate
Definition categories: motion, leave
4. remove
- Empty the water
Definition categories: contact, remove, take, withdraw
5. excrete or discharge from the body
Similar word(s): evacuate, void
Definition categories: body, egest, eliminate, excrete, pass
Sentences with empty as a verb:
- to empty a well or a cistern